Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Core Retrieval

About Pinterest:

Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.

Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.

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The Core Serving and Retrieval infra group provides frameworks and hosted solutions for multiple technologies forming the backend building blocks for all recommendations and search product teams at Pinterest. This includes,

• Serving Infra: Recommendation/search serving infra for all Pinterest surfaces (Home Feed, Search, Related pins, notifications etc),
• Retrieval Infra: Vector, token and Hybrid search as a service - the team provides search (vector, token and hybrid) as a service to all product teams. This includes hosting 100's of clusters indexing Billions of documents and enabling highly performant search functionality spanning a wide variety of workloads.
• Graph based recommendations - Graph based random walk recommendation engine on Pinterest entities.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Layout the technical roadmap for retrieval and Serving systems at Pinterest in keeping with the advancements in the industry and emerging product needs with Pinterest.
• Design and build large scale, high performance recommendation / search systems. And keep improving performance, scalability and stability.
• Drive cross functional collaborations with partner teams to add new functionalities to support all kinds of product innovations.
• Develop new high performance subsystems to support product innovation.
• Simplify and unify the serving stack to unlock faster product iterations.
• Mentor and develop team members technical and leadership skills

Must Have Skills & Experience:

• 10+ years of industry experience
• 2+ years of experience in retrieval infrastructure (Token and/or Vector Search)
• 2+ yrs experience as a tech lead and leading efforts across teams and organizations
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience on building high scale distributed system
• Experience on building realtime enabled systems
• Knowledge on search or recommendation system

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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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.

US based applicants only$206,456—$360,985 USD

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require an accommodation during the job application process, please notify [email protected] for support.