Staff Software Engineer, Ads & Core Serving Platform
Pinterest · Palo Alto, CA, US; San Francisco, CA, US
About this role
**About Pinterest** Millions of people around the world come to Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for memories that last a lifetime. At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love—powered by the people behind the product. Pinterest is seeking a **Staff Software Engineer** to help evolve the serving platforms that power **Ads** and **Core** experiences. You’ll lead large-scale, low-latency distributed-system initiatives that make our serving stack more performant, reliable, observable, and easier to extend. **What you’ll do** - Set technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core. - Build and operate scalable, highly available systems with clear performance, reliability, and efficiency goals. - Partner with product, ML, infrastructure, and Core/Ads engineering teams to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities. - Improve the serving stack through framework modernization, API evolution, experimentation controls, observability, and debugging tools. - Lead complex projects end to end: technical strategy, design, implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational readiness. - Use AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and iteration—while applying sound engineering judgment and validation. - Raise the quality bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and operational excellence. - Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization. **What we’re looking for** - 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems. - Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams or organizations. - Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms. - Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience. - Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners. - Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as **Java, C++, Go, or Python**. - Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards. - Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering workflows, with a rigorous approach to testing, validation, and responsible use. - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) or equivalent experience. **Preferred qualifications** - Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems. - Experience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling. - Experience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response. **Relocation & In-Office Requirements** - **Relocation:** This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. - **In-office:** 1–2 times per week for in-person collaboration, and you must be in commutable distance from **Palo Alto** or **San Francisco**. **Compensation (US based applicants only)** - Base salary range: **$208,454 — $364,795 USD** - Equity eligibility may apply. **Commitment to Inclusion** Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics, and Pinterest also
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