Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest
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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
Open for applications
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience with developing and operating large-scale distributed services/systems
- 3+ years of experience with developing technical strategy for one or more AI/ML-powered core product teams (e.g. Growth, Search, Ads etc.)
- Excellent track record of collaborating with strong Engineering (EMs, TLs and Senior ICs) and Cross-functional Stakeholders (PMs, Data Scientists, Designers and PMMs) to influence the team’s 12 - 24 month engineering strategy
- Experience with building and scaling large-scale communications platforms (e.g. Pinterest’s NEP, LinkedIn’s Air Traffic Controller, Uber’s OOA Communications platform, Braze’s SageAI etc.) or large-scale content recommender/ranking systems (e.g. Ads Ranking, Feed Ranking, Search Ranking etc.)
- Excellent understanding about how ML/AI fits into the broader system and drives product/business objectives
- Strong skills around systems-based thinking, first-principles based thinking and technical problem solving (e.g. topics discussed in Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems)
- Notifications Experience
What the job involves
- The Notifications team directly contributes to the company’s top line growth (MAUs) by reducing user churn and nudging dormant users to come back to the platform. The team focuses on minimizing user churn by keeping Pinterest top-of-mind for Pinners with engaging and contextual notifications that continuously give them a compelling reason to return to Pinterest. This is accomplished through:
- Developing and operating the company-wide Notifications Delivery Platform (NEP), which is used by multiple teams within Core to spin up and run notification campaigns (omni-channel off-app)
- Developing and operating ML/AI pipelines for generating and delivering highly personalized recommendations at scale
- Developing and operating the in-app Newshub surface, which is used as a launch-pad for further in-app exploration by engaged users
- Partner with Eng and Product leads for Notifications to craft a compelling, ambitious and impactful multi-year AI/ML-powered technical strategy for evolving Notifications at Pinterest (e.g. Taking NEP Platform to the next level)
- Influence the broader technical vision and strategy for Pinner Lifecycle through effective collaborations with Engineering (EMs, TLs and Senior ICs) and Cross-functional Stakeholders (PMs, Data Scientists, Designers and PMMs)
- Translate the multi-year technical strategy for Notifications into a concrete engineering roadmap and lead the team’s technical execution towards realizing the vision (team of 25+ engineers)
- Proactively foresees the potential risks in the engineering roadmap in the planning stage, leverages technical insight to provide mitigation plans, and gives appropriate feedback to other projects on review to adjust course to more stable solutions
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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