Staff Backend Engineer - Performance Marketing & AI

Rozgoo; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform. You will lead engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that measure marketing spend.

You will design measurement stacks, build scalable bidding and experimentation capabilities, ensure system reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with marketing, data science, and product partners.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and shipping backend systems with hands-on performance marketing exposure.
• Strong understanding of backend architecture and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, defining the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management
• Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend
• Design and evolve the measurement stack - attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approaches as platform signals degrade
• Develop systems that automate and optimize bidding strategies and campaign experimentation at scale
• Drive cross-team technical initiatives with ads platform, data warehouse, and mobile teams - authoring design documents and building alignment across engineering orgs
• Own system reliability and operational health for spend-critical systems where downtime or bugs have direct financial impact
• Collaborate with marketing, data science, and product partners to identify growth opportunities and turn them into engineered solutions
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, establishing technical best practices and raising the bar on system design
• Use AI to accelerate your own work - across exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis - while maintaining strong judgment, rigorous validation, and accountability for outcomes

Skills

Backend systems

Performance marketing

Hands-on engineering

System reliability

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an experienced backend engineer to own the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform. You will lead engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that measure marketing spend.

You will design measurement stacks, build scalable bidding and experimentation capabilities, ensure system reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with marketing, data science, and product partners.