Staff Software Engineer, Ads Delivery Infrastructure

Pinterest • San Francisco, CA

281d • $200,436 - $350,763

About The Position

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms and our continued success depends on rapidly scaling our core revenue-generating systems. Specifically, we need 10X the scale of our campaign management, ad delivery, and machine learning platforms, while enabling developers inside Pinterest and external advertisers to build and iterate rapidly on new features. We're seeking talented Staff Software Engineers to join our dynamic Ads Ingestion Infrastructure team. Our mission is to build a scalable, performant item ingestion infrastructure to acquire merchant content data at Pinterest and serve merchant metadata on Shopping surfaces.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems, systems programming and data pipelines.
• Experience in building and owning large scale high performance infrastructure powering ads, recommendation, search, or other consumer facing applications.
• Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
• Proficiency in Java and Python.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architect and develop a scalable ingestion platform system, data pipelines, and tools for ingesting merchant and advertiser content.
• Rearchitect and refine our catalog ingestion infrastructure to achieve greater scalability and performance handling billions of catalog items and petabytes of data more efficiently.
• Collaborate with partner teams to support new consumer facing products using the ingestion platform.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a strong team of engineers.

Benefits

• Equity eligibility
• Flexible work model (PinFlex)
• Collaborative work environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree