Staff Software Engineer Ads Retrieval
Staff Software Engineer Ads Retrieval
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Job Description
Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms and our continued success depends on rapidly scaling our core revenuegenerating 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.
Were 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 stateoftheart indexing/retrieval & ML technologies to improve the freshness relevancy and infrastructure efficiency of ads retrieval.
What youll 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 1020 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership.
What were looking for:
- BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8 years of professional experience as a handson 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 and secure deliverables.
- Hands on experience in solving complex scaling latency or lowlevel system performance problems in highvolume online serving systems.
- Knowledge of industry best practices and trends and use it to form a longterm 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 enduser problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
- Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C Java Python).
InOffice Requirement Statement:
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were 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 inperson 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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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
