Sr. Staff Software Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure

About the position Pinterest is one of the fastest growing online advertising platforms and our continued success depends on rapidly scaling our core revenue-generating systems. Specifically, we need 10X the scale of our campaign management, ad delivery, and machine learning platforms, while enabling developers inside Pinterest and external advertisers to build and iterate rapidly on new features. We're seeking a talented Senior Staff Software Engineer to take the tech lead role of Ad Serving Platform team. You will lead the team to build a high throughput, low latency, ad serving system which empowers Pinterest ads business. 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. Responsibilities • Define and execute the technical strategy for scaling and modernizing our ad serving infrastructure. • Rearchitect and refine the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS. • Lead collaboration with ML, product, infra and other partner teams to evaluate infra requests and make fund decisions. • Mentor and lead a team of 10-20 engineers, influencing their day to day work. Requirements • BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field. • 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects. • 5+ years of relevant industry experience with Ads or Search Infrastructure and distributed systems. • Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables. • Hands on experience in solving complex scaling, latency, or low-level system performance problems in high-volume online serving systems. • Knowledge of industry best practices and trends, and use it to form a long-term plan to the team. • Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer painpoints. • Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers. • Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity. • Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (C++, Java, Python). Benefits • Base salary range: $235,964-$412,937 USD • Equity eligibility Apply tot his job