Pinterest's Core Serving Infrastructure team needs to develop and maintain large-scale, high-performance recommendation & search backend systems to power various surfaces like Homefeed, Related Pins, Search, and Notifications, serving billions of pins and hundreds of millions of users.
Requirements
- Strong technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
- 2+ years of experience in recommendation / search systems.
- 2+ yrs experience as a tech lead.
- Experience defining and executing multi-phase technical strategies.
Responsibilities
- Creating the technical roadmap for Pinterest's recommendation & search backend systems, aligning with industry advancements and emerging product needs.
- Designing and building large-scale, high-performance recommendation & search backend systems, continuously enhancing their performance, scalability, and stability.
- Leading cross-functional collaborations with partner teams to integrate new functionalities, enabling a wide range of product innovations.
- Simplifying and unifying the serving stack to facilitate faster product iterations.
- Mentoring and developing the technical and leadership skills of team members.
Other
- 8+ years of industry experience.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Effective cross-team collaboration.
- Strong mentorship and coaching abilities.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
