About the position
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. 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. Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences. Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Equity eligibility
- Base salary range of $200,569—$412,937 USD
