Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Merchants

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At Pinterest AI isnt just a feature its a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact and were looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities well explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process what matters most is that you can always explain your approach showing us not just what you know but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

Our Merchants organization focuses on onboarding and activation catalog quality and health merchant presence (including creator/UGC and trust signals) and ads upsellhelping merchants build healthy catalogs reach the right audiences and unlock clear paths to growth.

In this role youll lead high-impact engineering at the intersection of commerce platforms catalog systems and AI-native experiences. This includes applying ML AI-assisted workflows and GenAI where appropriate to improve metadata quality merchant tooling and operational efficiency. Youll partner closely with Engineering Managers Product Managers Data Scientists and other senior engineers to deliver systems with measurable business and user impact.

What youll do:

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiativesfrom problem framing and technical strategy through architecture implementation rollout and iteration.
• Shape catalog and integration systems for scale reliability and quality ensuring merchant data is deep broad fresh and actionable across partners formats and key signals such as inventory and pricing where relevant.
• Build and evolve ML- GenAI- and AI-assisted merchant experiences with strong validation and guardrailsfor example metadata enrichment gap-filling and internal tools that improve catalog health without compromising trust.
• Contribute to merchant onboarding and activation systems that span teams creating streamlined flows signals and decisioning pathways that improve approval rates merchant quality and time to value.
• Partner where appropriate on organic attribution merchant insights and data-driven pathways from organic success to paid products ensuring strategy is measurable rather than anecdotal.
• Drive technical decisions using clear tradeoffs across revenue conversion catalog health engagement and Torso success.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for technical design engineering quality and production readiness across the organization.
• Use AI to accelerate your own workacross exploration drafting analysis and synthesiswhile maintaining strong judgment rigorous validation and accountability for outcomes.
  
  

What were looking for:

• 10 years of software engineering experience including meaningful time as a Staff Senior Staff or equivalent-level IC building and operating complex production systems.
• Strong track record in commerce marketplaces ads or other adjacent large-scale domains including leadership on cross-team technical initiatives.
• Deep experience in systems design API design and data-intensive systems with the ability to navigate tradeoffs in performance reliability and scalability.
• Experience building or partnering on ML- AI- or GenAI-adjacent systems with a pragmatic understanding of where these technologies add value and how to deploy them responsibly.
• Catalog integrations or merchant platform experience is a strong plus.
• Experience with growth measurement funnel optimization or organic-to-paid ecosystems is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction without directly owning every implementation detail.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical fieldor equivalent practical experience.

Relocation Statement:

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

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/month and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco or Palo Alto.
  
  

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