Staff Software Engineer, Ads Retrieval

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 a talented Staff Software Engineer to take the tech lead role of Ads Retrieval and Targeting Infra team. You will lead the team build high throughput, low latency, industry scale information retrieval system which empowers Pinterest ads business. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art indexing/retrieval & ML technologies to improve the freshness, relevancy and infrastructure efficiency of ads retrieval.

What you’ll do:

• In this pivotal role, you will take on the challenge of defining and executing the technical strategy for scaling and modernizing our retrieval infrastructure.
• Your efforts will include rearchitecting and refining the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS.
• You will lead the collaboration with ML, product, infra and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make fund decisions.
• You will be the tech lead of 10-20 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership.  

What we’re looking for:

• BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with Ads or Search Infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables.
• Hands on experience in solving complex scaling, latency, or low-level system performance problems in high-volume online serving systems.
• Knowledge of industry best practices and trends, and use it to form a long-term plan to the team.
• Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer painpoints.
• Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers.
• Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
• Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C++, Java, Python).

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices [SF, PA, SEA].

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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