Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
Ads Retrieval & Targeting Infrastructure
$160.5-330.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$160.5-330.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 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++
What the job involves
- On the Ads Intelligence team we work on building products that solve advertiser problems that either fall outside of the typical stages of ads delivery or that span across many of the stages
- The team you will lead works to identify, design and implement systems and models that broadly improve the ads delivery funnel or power products that reduce friction for advertisers and ad sales
- In short, this is a unique position, where you’ll get the freedom to chart your own journey and where you’ll get the opportunity to dive deep into many areas of ads
- Identify advertiser problems, analyze existing data to highlight the problem and opportunity size and propose and implement novel solutions
- Build and improve machine learning models and backend systems that underlay ads delivery and advertiser interfaces to maximize value for Pinners, Partners and Pinterest
- Run ads delivery experiments that either explore advertiser problems or that validate your solutions to said problems
- Drive multi-functional collaboration with peers and partners across the company to identify and solve advertiser problems that stretch across many areas
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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