Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, Activation Team

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About the role

  • Staff Engineer driving technical strategy and backend systems for Pinterest's user experience. Leading initiatives to enhance the user experience for new and returning Pinterest users.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical roadmap for activation backend systems, defining the highest-impact opportunities for new and returning users
  • Drive hands-on backend engineering across APIs, event pipelines, production systems, and recommendation serving
  • Build signal infrastructure that captures user intent from entry points and makes it available to recommendation systems
  • Collaborate closely with ML engineers, building the backend infrastructure that ML models depend on
  • Partner with product managers and data scientists to translate user problems into technical opportunities
  • Drive cross-team technical initiatives, authoring design documents and building alignment across engineering orgs
  • Own system reliability, production readiness, and operational health for activation backend systems
  • Mentor and develop engineers on the team

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping large-scale backend systems at consumer internet companies
  • 2+ years of experience as a senior IC driving cross-team projects with measurable business impact
  • Strong product mindset with the ability to identify which technical problems matter most for business impact
  • Track record of rapid execution and driving projects to completion in ambiguous environments
  • Strong systems design skills across distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and service-oriented backends
  • Familiarity with ML infrastructure concepts and ability to build systems that support ML workloads
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering and product audiences
  • Experience mentoring engineers and establishing technical best practices
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate your workflow while maintaining high standards for verification, data integrity, and ownership of final outputs
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits

  • Equitable workplace
  • Inclusive workplace
  • Inspiring workplace

Job title

Staff Software Engineer, Activation Team

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$177,185 - $364,795 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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