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At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.\nDiscover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.\nAt Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.\nThrough 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.\nPinterest is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help evolve the serving platforms that power Ads and Core experiences. You will lead large-scale, low-latency distributed-system initiatives that make our serving stack more performant, reliable, observable, and easier to extend.\nYou will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.\nWhat you’ll do: \nSet technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core.\nBuild and operate scalable, highly available systems with clear performance, reliability, and efficiency goals.\nPartner with product, ML, infrastructure, and Core/Ads engineering teams to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities.\nImprove the serving stack through framework modernization, API evolution, experimentation controls, observability, and debugging tools.\nLead complex projects end to end: technical strategy, design, implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational readiness.\nUse AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and iteration while applying sound engineering judgment and validation.\nRaise the quality bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and operational excellence.\nMentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.\nWhat we’re looking for:\n8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.\nExperience leading complex technical initiatives across teams or organizations.\nStrong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms.\nDemonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners.\nProficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python.\nExperience mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering workflows, with a rigorous approach to testing, validation, and responsible use.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.\nPreferred qualifications:Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems.\nExperience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling.\nExperience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response.\n\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit ourPinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\nIn-Office Requirement Statement:\nWe 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.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices Palo Alto OR San Francisco\n#LI-HYBRID \nAt Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.\nInformation regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.\nUS based applicants only\n$208,454—$364,795 USD\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. 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