Staff Software Engineer

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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 Staff Software Engineer in the Shopping Platform Infrastructure organization. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for scaling our Shopping catalog 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 executing our company-wide Shopping strategy, enabling product discovery and driving business growth.

What you'll do:

• Lead the 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 catalog 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 catalog systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and high performance.

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
• Proven success in architecting and scaling distributed systems to support rapid growth in data volume and complexity, ideally in e-commerce, or high-growth technology environments.
• Deep technical expertise in 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.
• Excellent cross-team collaboration skills, with a track record of influencing organization-wide strategy and delivering results in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
• 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.