Sr Staff Engineer, Programmatic Ads

We're seeking a talented Senior Staff Software Engineer to take on a leadership role within the Programmatic Ads team. You will lead critical efforts within the team to build high throughput, low latency, solutions which power Pinterest ads business with third party partners. You will build the team roadmap and leverage state-of-the-art serving infrastructure to efficiently and effectively serve ads to Pinterest users across all surfaces, via fulfillment from third party buyers leveraging programmatic ads standards.

The Programmatic Ads team integrates with external demand partners (DSPs, SSPs, etc) through OpenRTB. We drive performance optimization (latency, conversion, engagement, fill rate, etc) for our programmatic ad products. We are also responsible for building internal tools to better enable cross-functional teams.

What you’ll do:

• Take on the challenge of defining and executing the technical strategy for building, scaling, and modernizing our third party ads serving infrastructure


• Rearchitect and refine the infrastructure to achieve greater scalability, freshness and performance handling billions of ads and millions of QPS


• Lead the collaboration with ML, product, infra and other partner teams to evaluate the infra requests and make funding decisions


• Lead mission critical initiatives involving 15-25 engineers and directly influence their day to day work through mentorship and leadership 

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 within the ads domain 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 proven track record employing such solutions


• 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 (Java, Python)

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 time per week] and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: San Francisco, Seattle

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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