Über diese Staff Software Engineer Stelle bei Pinterest
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We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a team transforming how merchants onboard and activate through agent enabled experiences. You will partner with Product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap, prototype innovative ideas and deliver reliable systems that use merchant signals and personalized recommendations to create measurable business impact.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable, MCP first systems for merchant onboarding, activation and growth experiences.
- Partner with Product to shape a growth roadmap, identify high value opportunities and convert the strongest concepts into production experiences.
- Design integrations that apply high quality merchant signals and personalized recommendations across Pinterest surfaces and approved external agent ecosystems.
- Build agent enabled experiences that improve merchant readiness and campaign creation, with clear measurement of their contribution to business impact.
- Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis and iteration while applying judgment and verification to ensure quality, reliability and user trust.
- Improve the team's AI harness across development, testing, quality validation and service operations.
- Raise the technical bar through clear technical direction, design reviews and coaching that helps engineers make thoughtful decisions and deliver with strong ownership.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems spanning product surfaces, backend services, data signals and external integrations.
- Experience designing agent enabled systems and MCP based integrations, with strong judgment around reliability, security, data quality and user trust.
- Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps, prototype new ideas and make technical tradeoffs that support growth goals.
- Experience in experimentation, measurement and causal thinking, with the ability to connect product and technical decisions to business impact.
- Experience improving the effectiveness of an AI first engineering team through technical direction, design reviews, coaching and practical improvements to AI assisted development, testing and operations.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day to day workflow for relevant outputs, while critically evaluating and verifying AI assisted work.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work 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
- At Pinterest, We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- 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, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York City or Los Angeles.
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
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