Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Trends & Insights

Segment (Twilio); San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 177,185 - 364,795; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical vision for the Trends and Audience Insights platform, an AI-powered initiative turning signals into actionable advertiser insights. You’ll shape scalable data pipelines, guide cross-functional teams across Ads, Product, Data Science, and Design, and drive prototype-to-production delivery while ensuring safety and quality.

This role blends large-scale data, ML, and product innovation with mentorship of engineers and a focus on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in software engineering for large-scale data/ML platforms.
• Experience with AI tooling and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for unified audience-first insights platform.
• Architect scalable data pipelines and generate reusable insights.
• Lead delivery of roadmap bets from prototype to production.
• Integrate LLM-powered capabilities with safety, quality guardrails.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, and Ads orgs to embed insights.
• Mentor engineers and establish measurement practices linking insight quality to adoption and revenue.

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical vision for the Trends and Audience Insights platform, an AI-powered initiative turning signals into actionable advertiser insights. You’ll shape scalable data pipelines, guide cross-functional teams across Ads, Product, Data Science, and Design, and drive prototype-to-production delivery while ensuring safety and quality.

This role blends large-scale data, ML, and product innovation with mentorship of engineers and a focus on