We're seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to take the tech lead role of Ads Retrieval and Targeting Infra team. You will lead the team build high throughput, low latency, industry scale information retrieval system which empowers Pinterest ads business. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art indexing/retrieval & ML technologies to improve the freshness, relevancy and infrastructure efficiency of ads retrieval.

What you’ll do

• 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.

What we’re looking for

• 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 strategy to the team
• Passionate about building ads serving stack visibility and solving Ops / customer pain points 
• 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 or Python 

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.

1. 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.

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