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 talented Staff Software Engineers to join our dynamic Ads Delivery Content Infrastructure team. Our group is at the forefront of developing large-scale solutions for Ads Ingestion, Ads Indexing, and Ads Database, handling data on a colossal scale—think billions of records and petabytes of storage.

What you’ll do:

• In this pivotal role, you will take on the challenge of defining and executing the technical strategy for scaling our existing indexing and database architecture. Your efforts will include rearchitecting and refining our core catalog, ads indexing and database infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of entries and petabytes of data more efficiently.
• You’ll leverage data storage, streaming processing, and information retrieval technologies such as MySQL, TiDB, Flink, and Iceberg.
• You will join a skilled, highly-impactful team working on top company goals. Our team fosters close collaboration across product and machine learning teams, leading to direct impacts on hundreds of advertising product launches and improvements. You will also work with a strong team of engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship.

What we’re looking for:

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems, transactional datastores, and systems programming.
• Experience in building and owning large scale high performance infrastructure powering ads, recommendation, search, or other consumer facing applications.
• Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity.
• Proficiency in Java.

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we’re not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, Los Angeles.

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