# Staff Software Engineer, Ads & Core Serving Platform

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $208,454-$364,795 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Pinterest 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.

Responsibilities:

- Set technical direction and lead architecture for major serving-platform initiatives across Ads and Core.

- Build and operate scalable, highly available systems with clear performance, reliability, and efficiency goals.

- Partner with product, ML, infrastructure, and Core/Ads engineering teams to translate complex requirements into reusable platform capabilities.

- Improve the serving stack through framework modernization, API evolution, experimentation controls, observability, and debugging tools.

- Lead complex projects end to end: technical strategy, design, implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational readiness.

- Use AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and iteration while applying sound engineering judgment and validation.

- Raise the quality bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and operational excellence.

- Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend or distributed systems.

- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across teams or organizations.

- Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms.

- Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners.

- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python.

- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating technical standards.

- Demonstrated 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.

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems.

- Experience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling.

- Experience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response.

Benefits:

- Salary range: $208,454-$364,795 USD

- Equity eligibility

- Hybrid work model (1-2 days in office per week)

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- low-latency services
- infrastructure platforms
- Java
- C++
- Go
- Python
- AI

### Nice to have
- ads delivery
- recommendation systems
- search serving
- serving-framework migrations
- platform consolidation
- observability
- production debugging

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