Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Programmatic Ads

About Pinterest :

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. 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.

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We're seeking a talented Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a leadership role within the Programmatic Ads team. You will lead critical efforts within the team to build high throughput, low latency, solutions which power Pinterest ads business with third party partners. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art serving infrastructure to efficiently and effectively serve ads to Pinterest users across all surfaces, via fulfillment from third party buyers leveraging programmatic ads standards.

The Programmatic Ads team integrates with external demand partners (DSPs, SSPs, etc) through OpenRTB. We drive performance optimization (latency, conversion, engagement, fill rate, etc) for our programmatic ad products. We are also responsible for building internal tools to better enable cross-functional teams.

What you'll do :

• Take on the challenge of defining and executing the technical strategy for building, scaling, and modernizing our third party ads serving infrastructure
• Rearchitect and refine the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness, and performance handling billions of ads and millions of QPS
• Lead the collaboration with ML, product, infra, and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make funding decisions
• Lead mission critical initiatives involving 15-25 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership

What we're looking for :

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At 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.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here .

US based applicants only

$235,964 — $412,937 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion :

Pinterest 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. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.