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, specifically to build high throughput, low latency, solutions which power Pinterest ads business with third party partners.
Requirements
- 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 proven track record employing such solutions
- Experience in mentoring, guiding and up-leveling junior engineers
- Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity
- Proficiency in at least one of the system languages (Java, Python)
Responsibilities
- 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
Other
- 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 within the ads domain and distributed systems
- Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution, and secure deliverables
- In-office collaboration 1 time per week, commutable distance from San Francisco or Seattle
