6 months ago
Base Salary
$245k - $429k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives from problem framing and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
- Shape catalog and integration systems for scale, reliability, and quality across partners, formats, inventory, pricing, and other key signals.
- Build and evolve ML-, GenAI-, and AI-assisted merchant experiences with validation and guardrails, including metadata enrichment and catalog-health tools.
- Contribute to merchant onboarding and activation systems that improve approval rates, merchant quality, and time to value.
- Partner on organic attribution, merchant insights, and measurable pathways from organic success to paid products.
- Drive technical decisions using tradeoffs across revenue, conversion, catalog health, engagement, and business success.
- Mentor senior engineers and raise standards for technical design, engineering quality, and production readiness.
- Use AI to accelerate exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis while maintaining rigorous validation and accountability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience as a Staff, Senior Staff, or equivalent-level individual contributor building and operating complex production systems.
- Strong experience in commerce, marketplaces, ads, or adjacent large-scale domains, including leadership of cross-team technical initiatives.
- Deep experience with systems design, API design, and data-intensive systems, including performance, reliability, and scalability tradeoffs.
- Experience building or partnering on ML-, AI-, or GenAI-adjacent systems and deploying these technologies responsibly.
- Catalog, integrations, or merchant platform experience is preferred.
- Experience with growth, measurement, funnel optimization, or organic-to-paid ecosystems is preferred.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction without directly owning every implementation detail.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid in-office collaboration 1–2 times per month from a commutable distance to San Francisco or Palo Alto.
- The position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- The role is eligible for equity.
- US-based applicants only.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest builds a visual discovery and bookmarking platform where people search, save, and shop ideas across home, fashion, food, and more. The company monetizes primarily through advertising and shopping integrations, using visual search and recommendation systems to connect users and merchants. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest is a public company on the NYSE (PINS) with around 482 million monthly users worldwide.