Senior Staff Software Engineer

Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration and bring their passions to life. Shopping is a core part of this experience. We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Engineer in the Shopping Platform Infrastructure organization. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for architecting and scaling our Shopping Platform systems by 10X, ensuring they are robust, reliable, and ready to power the future of Shopping on Pinterest. You will play a key role in shaping and executing our company-wide Shopping strategy, enabling seamless product discovery and driving business growth.

What you'll do:

• Lead the technical vision and execution for scaling the Shopping Platform Infrastructure by 10X, supporting exponential growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements.
• Architect, design, and build large-scale, highly distributed systems for catalog ingestion, processing, enrichment, and retrieval, ensuring data is accurate, fresh and easy to access at massive scale.
• Collaborate closely with product, data, and business teams to align Shopping Platform Infrastructure with Pinterest’s overall Shopping strategy and deliver best-in-class Shopping experiences.
• Drive technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as Flink, Spark, TiDB, and more.
• Champion operational excellence by implementing best practices for monitoring, reliability, and cost efficiency across all Shopping Platform systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.
• Work cross-functionally to define problems, drive solutions, and influence company-wide strategy for Shopping and Commerce.

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
• Proven success in architecting and scaling distributed systems to support 10X+ growth in data volume and complexity, ideally in e-commerce, or high-growth technology environments.
• Deep technical expertise in Shopping infrastructure and standards, catalog management, data pipelines, and real-time data processing.
• Experience building and owning large-scale, high-performance infrastructure powering Shopping, Recommendation, Search, or other consumer-facing applications.
• Strong strategic thinking and the ability to translate business goals into technical vision and execution.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing company-wide strategy and delivering results in partnership with product and business leaders.
• Experience mentoring and guiding engineers, and a passion for developing engineering talent.
• Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java or C++.
• A bias for action, innovation, and operational rigor in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

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.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Zurich.

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