Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pinterest

Content Quality

$160.5-330.1k

+ Equity

Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
C++
Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

Open for applications

Pinterest

Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Open for applications

$160.5-330.1k

+ Equity

Python
Scala
Java
Kafka
C++
Hadoop
Spark
Flink
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BLifestyleSocialDigital MediaSocial MediaAdvertising

Company mission

To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.

Role

Who you are

  • 7+ years of industry experience with two years as TL
  • Expertise in at least one of the generic programming languages (Java/Scala/C++/Python/)
  • Expertise in building and debugging scalable backend services and APIs
  • Expertise in technical leadership of a team and mentorship
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems (distributed storage systems, stream processing, inference, and deployment at scale)
  • Hands-on experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark / Kafka / Flink/ Hadoop) and scalable real-time systems that process stream data

What the job involves

  • The Content Quality team builds large-scale content processing systems that utilize machine learning signals to select the highest quality content to distribute to pinners
  • This team touches nearly every piece of content that comes into Pinterest and creates and distributes signals that drive impact across our suite of consumer or ads products
  • To scale our systems we leverage Spark, Flink, and low-latency model serving infrastructure
  • Architect and develop systems, data pipelines, tools, and processes for computing and delivering signals capturing quality aspects of content created on Pinterest
  • Collaborate with Machine Learning engineers during conceptualization and productionization of signal
  • Work with infrastructure and platform teams to build the right set of tools and APIs to support signal hosting and delivery
  • Collaborate with signal consuming teams to architect signal adoption frameworks

Our take

Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.

Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.

Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.

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Kirsty

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9% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest


People progressing

Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.

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