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Pinterest · 1 day ago

Principal Engineer, Delivery Infrastructure

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityLead/Staff
money$285K/yr - $450K/yr
date10+ years exp

Pinterest is a rapidly growing online advertising platform on a mission to inspire creativity and growth. They are seeking a Principal Engineer to design and build next-gen infrastructure components for their monetization ecosystem, focusing on scalability and modernization of key systems.

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Responsibilities

Re-architect core catalog, ads indexing and serving infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness, performance, and reliability, using data storage, streaming processing, and information retrieval technologies such as MySQL, TiDB, Flink, and HNSW
Modernize the ML ecosystem for the entire Pinterest Ads product, replacing a hodgepodge of out-of-date ML stack with a unified, modern, and privacy-first ML stack with Pytorch, Spark, Iceberg, and GPU based serving
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define problems and drive solutions
Work with a strong team of engineers and provide technical guidance and mentorship

Qualification

Distributed systemsHigh performance infrastructureMachine learningJavaPythonC++Technical guidanceCollaborationProblem solving

Required

BS (or higher) degree in Computer Science, or a related field
10+ 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, C++, or Python

Benefits

Eligible for equity

Company

Pinterest

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Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
dateFounded in 2010
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
https://www.pinterest.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.49B
Key Investors
Elliott Management Corp.Brandtech VenturesSV Angel
2022-07-14Post Ipo Equity
2020-01-01Post Ipo Equity
2019-04-18IPO

Leadership Team

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Bill Ready
Chief Executive Officer
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Julia Brau Donnelly
Chief Financial Officer
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