Principal Engineer, Shopping & Delivery Infra
PinterestVisual Discovery company
San Francisco, United States$285,452 - $449,541 USDLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Bessemer Venture Partners
FirstMark Capital
Fidelity Investments
Rakuten
Valiant Capital Partners
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical strategy for Pinterest's Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure.
- •Pinterest is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution for its Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping.
- •This role will shape how fresh, relevant, and cost-efficient candidates are generated for discovery experiences at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and drive the long-term technical vision for indexing and retrieval infrastructure.
- •Lead cross-org initiatives to modernize Pinterest’s indexing architecture.
- •Partner with engineering, product, ML, and infrastructure leaders to align priorities and deliver shared platform capabilities.
- •Raise the technical bar for retrieval infrastructure by guiding system design and architecture reviews.
- •Build shared platform capabilities such as common metrics and debugging workflows.
- •Requirements Deep expertise building and evolving large-scale indexing, search, recommendation, or ads retrieval systems.
- •Strong technical leadership experience operating across multiple teams or organizations.
- •Proven ability to lead large modernization efforts.
- •Exceptional systems thinking and problem-solving skills.
- •Strong communication skills, including the ability to distill complex technical topics.
Required skills
MicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDTechnical LeadershipElasticsearchAWSGoogle CloudAzure
Nice-to-have skills
PythonGoRustSQLSparkApache KafkaTensorFlowPyTorchLLMsDocker
Domain expertise
ecommerceadtech
Benefits & perks
equity
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRustSQLBashNode.jsDjangoFlaskFastAPISpringExpressRuby on Rails.NETASP.NETNestJSLaravelSymfonyGinEchoActixPhoenixMicroservicesPandasNumPySparkAirflowdbtTableau
