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“Staff Software Engineer- Growth at Pinterest. Skills: Performance marketing, Attribution, Bidding, System design. Lead technical roadmap. Define high-impact investments”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years backend systems experience, Hands-on performance marketing experience, Experience with paid media platforms APIs, Experience with attribution methodologies, Experience integrating mobile measurement partners, Experience with near real-time systems, Proficiency building data pipelines, Experience with modern big data ecosystems, Systems design skills, Familiarity with ML infrastructure concepts, Ability to build ML systems, Demonstrated ability to use AI, Bachelor's degree in relevant field, Equivalent experience
Nice to Have
Experience with Python or Java/Scala, Experience with ML infrastructure concepts, Experience building systems for ML workloads
What You'll Do.
Lead technical roadmap
Define high-impact investments
Drive hands-on engineering
Design ad platform integrations
Build event pipelines
Develop production systems
Measure marketing spend
Design measurement stack
Evolve attribution models
Collect conversion signals
Develop incrementality methodology
Develop privacy-resilient approaches
Develop systems for bidding
Optimize bidding strategies
Automate campaign experimentation
Drive cross-team initiatives
Author design documents
Build alignment across orgs
Own system reliability
Own operational health
Collaborate with marketing
Collaborate with data science
Collaborate with product
Identify growth opportunities
Turn opportunities into solutions
Establish technical best practices
Raise bar on system design
Use AI to accelerate work
Accountability for outcomes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-team technical initiatives; Ads platform teams; Data warehouse teams; Mobile teams
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. 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. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. Pinterest's performance marketing engineering team owns the end-to-end systems that turn marketing dollars into measured user growth spanning attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management across major advertising platforms. This role is responsible for designing systems that scale across channels and adapt as privacy landscapes shift. What you’ll do: Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, defining the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend Design and evolve the measurement stack — attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approaches as platform sign
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