Principal Engineer, Pinterest
$233.3-480.3k
Eligible for equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$233.3-480.3k
Eligible for equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- Masters or Bachelor's degree with relevant experience in computer science or a closely related discipline
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- 5+ years of professional experience in machine learning engineering
- Robust comprehension of advertising technology
- Demonstrated ability to lead significant technical initiatives across organizations, with an emphasis on scalability, quality, and maintainability
- Recognized as a thought leader, driving strategic outcomes while promoting a culture of accountability and diversity
- Proven experience shipping products which leverage generative ai technologies
- Fundamental understanding of machine learning systems and the capacity to guide decisions regarding build, leverage, or acquisition
- The ideal candidate is a brilliant technical contributor with a proven history of delivering complex architectural solutions within the ads domain
What the job involves
- This Principal Engineer L18 IC role on the Monetization Team requires a senior technical leader with a strong background in both core software engineering and machine learning
- This role will lead the development and execution of the technical strategy for ad products that cater to both end users and advertisers on the platform
- The individual we hire will oversee the core technical outputs of approximately 200 engineers and remain a hands-on contributor, shipping their own deliverables in the process
- Lead and mentor engineering teams, inspiring innovation and excellence, while fostering future technical leaders within the organization
- Architect and implement cutting-edge strategies to refine advertiser experiences and launch user-centric products
- Guide and evaluate complex technical plans, ensuring they align with Pinterest’s strategic objectives and elevate operational efficiency
- Proactively manage project milestones, anticipate risks, and adapt strategies to ensure timely, successful delivery
- Oversee projects that improve developer efficiency, service reliability, and engineering quality, promoting best practices in software architecture
- Cultivate strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business goals, and drive consensus on strategic initiatives
- Lead development initiatives that leverage new generative AI models and strategies to enhance product offerings, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Champion best practices and drive architectural improvements that enhance system performance and extensibility
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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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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
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