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
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