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Sr. Staff Software Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure
Sr. Staff Software Engineering, Ads Serving InfrastructurePinterest • Palo Alto, CA, United States
Sr. Staff Software Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure

Sr. Staff Software Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure

Pinterest • Palo Alto, CA, United States
20 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

About Pinterest :

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible.

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 a talented Senior Staff Software Engineer to take the tech lead role of Ad Serving Platform team. You will lead the team to build a high throughput, low latency, ad serving system which empowers Pinterest ads business. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art serving infrastructure to efficiently and effectively serve ads to Pinterest users across all surfaces.

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 ad serving 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, infra and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make fund decisions.
  • You will be the tech lead of 10-20 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 professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects.
  • 5+ 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.
  • Knowledge of industry best practices and trends, and use it to form a long-term plan to the team.
  • Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer painpoints.
  • Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers.
  • Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
  • Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C++, Java, Python).
  • 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, Seattle, Palo Alto, NYC.
  • Relocation Statement :

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

    $235,964 — $412,937 USD

    Our Commitment to Inclusion :

    Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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