Pinterest

Staff Software Engineer, Ads Agent Infra

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5 hours ago
Remote, United States or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$208k - $365k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain durable execution platforms for crash-recoverable, stateful AI agent workflows.
  • Design standardized Model Context Protocol servers, SDKs, and agent runtime interfaces for adoption across engineering teams.
  • Establish LLM observability, execution tracing, prompt versioning, and token-based cost governance across multi-agent systems.
  • Drive technical strategy and create foundational design documentation across infrastructure, security, and product teams.
  • Use AI for design prototyping, documentation, and code iteration while applying judgment and verification.
  • Automate testing, evaluation, and grader pipelines for agent skills and memory services.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of software engineering experience with expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and durable execution engines.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM agent frameworks and runtime internals, including LangGraph, DeepAgents, or Claude Agent SDK.
  • Expertise setting technical direction for platform abstractions and aligning infrastructure, security, and product teams.
  • Experience with service identity, multi-tenant security, mTLS, SPIFFE, and LLM observability or cost governance frameworks.
  • Ability to use AI to improve workflow speed and quality and critically evaluate and verify AI-assisted work.
  • Strong ownership, integrity, data protection, testing, source-checking, and peer code review practices.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Eligible for equity in addition to the stated base salary range.
  • The role requires in-office collaboration 1–2 times every quarter and candidates must be within commuting distance of the San Francisco or Palo Alto office.
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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Pinterest

About Pinterest

10,000+ employees

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.

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