Staff Software Engineer – Ads & Core Serving (Hybrid)

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to evolve the serving platforms powering Ads and Core experiences. You will lead large-scale, low-latency distributed systems initiatives that make our serving stack more performant, reliable, observable, and easier to extend.

You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production backends or distributed systems.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to trade off latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering workflows, with rigorous testing.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core.
• Build and operate scalable, highly available systems with clear performance, reliability, and efficiency goals.
• Partner with product, ML, infrastructure, and Core/Ads engineering teams to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve the serving stack through framework modernization, API evolution, observability, and debugging tools.
• Lead complex projects end to end: technical strategy, design, implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational readiness.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and iteration with sound engineering judgment.
• Raise the quality bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Java

C++

Go

Python

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to evolve the serving platforms powering Ads and Core experiences. You will lead large-scale, low-latency distributed systems initiatives that make our serving stack more performant, reliable, observable, and easier to extend.

You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.