Sr Staff Software Engineer, Ads Retrieval & Targeting Infrastructure
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
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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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only
$200,569—$412,937 USD
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Pinterest Seattle, Washington, USA Office
1730 Minor Ave, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98101
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