Pinterest is looking to build a high throughput, low latency, industry-scale information retrieval system for its ads business. This system needs to handle billions of ads and millions of queries per second, improving freshness, relevancy, and infrastructure efficiency.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience with Ads or Search Infrastructure and distributed systems
- 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 strategy to the team
- Proficiency in at least one of the system languages C++, Java or Python
- Experience solving end-user problems and envisioning solutions to improve their productivity
- Explore and build the start of art industry solutions to modernize the large scale information retrieval using technology like GPU or SSD based ANN retrieval
- Rearchitecting and refining the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS
Responsibilities
- Lead a high-impact engineering team focused on key company objectives, fostering collaboration with product and machine learning teams to directly influence numerous advertising product launches and improvements.
- Rearchitecting and refining the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads repository and millions of QPS
- Explore and build the start of art industry solutions to modernize the large scale information retrieval using technology like GPU or SSD based ANN retrieval
- Mentor engineers of all levels, guiding their career development, setting technical direction, overseeing execution, and nurturing positive team health and culture.
- Leverage state-of-the-art indexing/retrieval & ML technologies to improve the freshness, relevancy and infrastructure efficiency of ads retrieval.
- Build the team roadmap.
- Take the tech lead role of Ads Retrieval and Targeting Infra team.
Other
- 8+ years of professional experience as a hands-on engineer and technical leader leading multiple projects.
- Rich experience in working cross functionally to drive alignment, oversee execution and secure deliverables
- Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer pain points
- Experience in mentoring, guiding and upleveling junior engineers
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
- 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 our Palo Alto office.
