# Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Merchants

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $245,402-$429,454 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

### About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities, and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

### Job Summary:

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Merchants, you will lead high-impact engineering at the intersection of commerce platforms, catalog systems, and AI-native experiences. You will apply machine learning (ML), AI-assisted workflows, and generative AI (GenAI) to improve metadata quality, merchant tooling, and operational efficiency.

### Responsibilities:

- Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives, from problem framing to rollout and iteration.

- Shape catalog and integration systems for scale, reliability, and quality, ensuring merchant data is accurate and actionable.

- Develop and evolve ML-, GenAI-, and AI-assisted merchant experiences with strong validation and guardrails.

- Contribute to merchant onboarding and activation systems that improve approval rates, merchant quality, and time to value.

- Partner on organic attribution, merchant insights, and data-driven pathways from organic success to paid products.

- 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.

- Use AI to accelerate your work while maintaining strong judgment and accountability for outcomes.

### Requirements:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Senior Staff, or equivalent-level IC.

- Strong track record in commerce, marketplaces, ads, or adjacent large-scale domains.

- Experience in systems design, API design, and data-intensive systems.

- Familiarity with ML-, AI-, or GenAI-adjacent systems and their responsible deployment.

- Catalog, integrations, or merchant platform experience is a plus.

- Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical direction.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

### Salary Information:

The base salary range for this position is $245,402-$429,454 USD.

### Benefits:

Information regarding benefits can be found on our website.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- commerce platforms
- catalog systems
- AI-native experiences
- machine learning
- systems design
- API design
- data-intensive systems

### Nice to have
- catalog
- integrations
- merchant platform
- growth
- measurement
- funnel optimization
- organic-to-paid ecosystems

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