Sr Staff Software Engineer, Ads Retrieval & Targeting Infrastructure

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms and our continued success depends on rapidly scaling our core revenue-generating systems. Specifically, we need 10X the scale of our campaign management, ad delivery, and machine learning platforms, while enabling developers inside Pinterest and external advertisers to build and iterate rapidly on new features. 

We're seeking talented Staff Software Engineers to take the tech lead role of Ads Retrieval and Targeting Infra team. You will lead the team build high throughput, low latency, industry scale information retrieval system which empowers Pinterest ads business. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art indexing/retrieval & ML technologies to improve the freshness, relevancy and infrastructure efficiency of ads retrieval.

What you’ll do:

In this pivotal role, you will take on the challenge of defining and executing the technical strategy for scaling and modernizing our retrieval infrastructure. Your efforts will include rearchitecting and refining the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS. You will lead the collaboration with ML, product and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make fund decisions. You will be the tech lead of 5-10 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership.  

What we’re looking for:

• BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with Ads or Search Infrastructure and distributed systems
• Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables
• Hands on experience in solving complex scaling, latency, or low-level system performance problems in high-volume online serving systems
• Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers
• Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity
• Knowledge of industry best practices and trends, and use it to form a long-term plan to the team
• Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C++, Java, Python), preferably with C++

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco, Palo Alto or Seattle.

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