Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
Core Retrieval Infrastructure
$160.5-330.1k
+ 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
$160.5-330.1k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of industry experience, ideally 2+ years retrieval infrastructure, 2+ years experience as a tech lead
- Domain experience in building large-scale serving systems
- Experience solving challenging, strategically-important technical problems
- Experience building technical roadmaps and executing on them through leading a team
- Experience working in the search (token and/or vector) retrieval space and/or knowledge on search or recommendation system
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
- Pinterest's Core Retrieval Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining the large scale, high performance recommendation and search system which serves billions of documents and hundreds millions users
- This includes token retrieval, vector retrieval, hybrid retrieval and random walk based graph retrieval
- These systems power all the Pinterest products including Pinterest HomeFeed, Search, and Shopping
- Layout the technical roadmap for retrieval systems at Pinterest in keeping with the advancements in the industry and emerging product needs with Pinterest
- Design and build large scale, high performance recommendation / search systems. And keep improving performance, scalability and stability
- Drive cross functional collaborations with partner teams to add new functionalities to support all kinds of product innovations
- Develop new high performance subsystems to support product innovation
- Simplify and unify the serving stack to unlock faster product iterations
- Mentor and develop team members technical and leadership skills
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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