Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
Advertiser Experience Infrastructure
$200.6-412.9k
+ Equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200.6-412.9k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience with ads or data infrastructure and distributed systems
- Experience in building large scale high performance infrastructure powering ads or other consumer facing applications
- Experience in building real-time data processing applications or data infrastructure (with technologies like Flink, Spark, Kafka, Iceberg)
- Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity
- Experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables
- Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers
- Proficiency in Java, Python
What the job involves
- 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
- At the Advertiser Experience Infrastructure team, our mission is to build performant infrastructures that enable seamless advertiser experience and rapid advertiser product innovations
- We are looking for a Sr Staff Software Engineer to lead and build the next-gen of advertiser infrastructures, such as campaign management, authorization, API platform, ads reporting & analytics
- In this role, you will work closely with other infrastructure teams and product partners to meet our platform’s strong scaling needs and enable fast product iterations, making direct impact to the revenue and business growth
- Re-architect ads reporting and data infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, flexibility, performance and reliability, unlocking a wider range of real-time ads data and measurement use cases both internally and externally
- Build more scalable campaign management and authorization infrastructures, ensuring all types of businesses can manage their ads and assets effectively and securely
- Modernize API platform and developer tooling with technologies like GraphQL, to make our API platform the easiest to use for both internal and external developers
- Collaborate closely with product and infrastructure teams to define problems and drive solutions
- Work with a strong team of engineers and provide technical guidance and mentorship
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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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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