Staff Software Engineer- Growth Performance Marketing

2 weeks, 3 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Pinterest

Pinterest

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine, offering a vast dataset of ideas with over 200 billion recipes, home hacks, and style inspiration. With a mission to inspire everyone to create a life they love, Pinterest empowers its employees t...

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, prioritizing the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management.
  • Drive hands-on engineering for ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend.
  • Design and evolve the measurement stack, including attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approaches.
  • Develop systems that automate and optimize bidding strategies and campaign experimentation at scale.
  • Lead cross-team technical initiatives with ads platform, data warehouse, and mobile teams, including writing design documents and building alignment across engineering organizations.
  • Own reliability and operational health for spend-critical systems where downtime or bugs have direct financial impact.
  • Collaborate with marketing, data science, and product partners to identify growth opportunities and turn them into engineered solutions.
  • Mentor and develop engineers on the team while establishing technical best practices and raising the bar on system design.
  • Use AI to accelerate exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis while maintaining strong judgment, rigorous validation, and accountability for outcomes.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building and shipping backend systems, with hands-on experience supporting performance marketing.
  • Strong understanding of paid media platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Snap, or similar, including API integrations at scale.
  • Deep understanding of attribution methodologies, incrementality testing, and conversion optimization, with hands-on experience integrating mobile measurement partners such as AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, or similar.
  • Experience with near real-time systems for bidding, budget optimization, and conversion event delivery.
  • Strong proficiency building and operating data pipelines and services using Python or Java/Scala, plus SQL.
  • Experience with modern big data ecosystems is a plus.
  • Strong systems design skills across distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and service-oriented backends.
  • Familiarity with ML infrastructure concepts and the ability to build systems that support ML workloads.
  • Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate workflow while maintaining high standards for verification, data integrity, and ownership of final outputs.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
  • This role requires in-office collaboration 1-2 times every 6 months and can be situated anywhere in the country.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $177,185 to $364,795 USD for US-based applicants.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Remote-friendly working arrangement with only occasional in-office collaboration.
  • Access to Pinterest’s benefits and culture resources for this position.
  • Opportunity to work in an equitable, inclusive, and inspiring workplace.

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