Staff Software Engineer
Pinterest · San Francisco, CA, US; Los Angeles, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US; New York, NY, US
About this role
**About Pinterest** Millions of people use Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan memories that last a lifetime. At Pinterest, the mission is to bring inspiration to help people create a life they love—powered by the people behind the product. Pinterest uses AI as a powerful partner to augment creativity and amplify impact. In interviews, they focus on how you think and how you can explain your approach. --- **Role: Staff Software Engineer** Pinterest is looking for a **Staff Software Engineer** to provide technical leadership for a team transforming how merchants onboard and activate through **agent-enabled experiences**. You’ll partner with Product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap, prototype innovative ideas, and deliver reliable systems that use merchant signals and personalized recommendations to drive measurable business impact. --- **What you’ll do** - Lead the architecture and delivery of **scalable, MCP-first systems** for merchant onboarding, activation, and growth experiences. - Partner with Product to shape a growth roadmap, identify high-value opportunities, and convert the strongest concepts into production experiences. - Design integrations that apply high-quality merchant signals and personalized recommendations across Pinterest surfaces and approved external agent ecosystems. - Build agent-enabled experiences that improve merchant readiness and campaign creation, with clear measurement of contribution to business impact. - Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis, and iteration—while applying judgment and verification to ensure quality, reliability, and user trust. - Improve the team’s AI harness across development, testing, quality validation, and service operations. - Raise the technical bar through technical direction, design reviews, and coaching to support strong ownership and thoughtful engineering decisions. --- **What we’re looking for** - Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems across product surfaces, backend services, data signals, and external integrations. - Experience designing **agent-enabled systems** and **MCP-based integrations**, with strong judgment around reliability, security, data quality, and user trust. - Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps, prototype new ideas, and make technical tradeoffs aligned to growth goals. - Experience with experimentation, measurement, and causal thinking—connecting product and technical decisions to business impact. - Experience improving the effectiveness of an AI-first engineering team through technical direction, design reviews, coaching, and practical improvements to AI-assisted development, testing, and operations. - Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day workflows for relevant outputs, while critically evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work. - Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent work experience). --- **Relocation** - This position **is not eligible for relocation assistance**. --- **In-Office Requirement** - In-person collaboration **1 time per week**. - Must be in commutable distance from: **San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York City, or Los Angeles**. --- **Compensation (US based applicants only)** - Base salary range: **$208,454 — $364,795 USD** - Equity eligibility: **Yes** --- **Commitment to Inclusion** Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on meri
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