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PinterestSr. Staff Software Engineer, Notifications & Growth Platform
Pinterest operates a digital platform where users globally gather to discover ideas, plan projects, and find inspiration. The Notifications & Growth Platform organization builds the infrastructure…
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Pinterest operates a digital platform where users globally gather to discover ideas, plan projects, and find inspiration. The Notifications & Growth Platform organization builds the infrastructure that supports user communications and growth initiatives across the company, enabling product teams to connect with audiences via push notifications, email, and in-app channels at scale. The company seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for the Notifications & Growth Platform team in San Francisco.…
Job Description
Pinterest operates a digital platform where users globally gather to discover ideas, plan projects, and find inspiration. The Notifications & Growth Platform organization builds the infrastructure that supports user communications and growth initiatives across the company, enabling product teams to connect with audiences via push notifications, email, and in-app channels at scale.
The company seeks a Sr. Staff Software Engineer for the Notifications & Growth Platform team in San Francisco. This individual contributor role focuses on shaping technical strategy, establishing multi-year roadmaps, and making architectural decisions regarding orchestration, scheduling, targeting, and multi-channel delivery systems.
This position requires extensive engineering experience, including senior individual contributor leadership on complex production platforms. Professionals joining this team will collaborate with cross-functional partners in product, data science, design, and engineering, while utilizing artificial intelligence tools to accelerate daily workflows. The role is hybrid, requiring physical presence in an office for collaboration once or twice every six months, and is open to US-based applicants.
Responsibilities
- Develop the technical vision and long-term roadmap for the Notifications & Growth Platform organization.
- Partner with product, data science, design, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Make architectural decisions to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery quality of notifications and growth systems.
- Establish success metrics and operating cadence aligned with organizational OKRs.
- Incorporate artificial intelligence tools to accelerate exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis.
Requirements
- Possess ten or more years of software engineering experience.
- Bring meaningful experience as a Staff, Senior Staff, or equivalent individual contributor building complex production systems.
- Demonstrate experience building or partnering on machine learning, AI, or generative AI-adjacent systems.
- Show proven technical leadership across multiple services and teams.
- Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder influence abilities.
Qualifications
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or possess equivalent experience.
- Bring prior experience with notifications and growth platforms.
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze data to uncover user growth opportunities.
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Benefits
- Eligible for equity in addition to base salary.
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What is the location and remote work policy for this role?
The position is based in San Francisco and operates on a hybrid model where you must be in an office for in-person collaboration one to two times every six months, meaning you can reside anywhere in the country.
What is the salary range for this position?
The US-based base salary range spans from $208,592 to $429,454 USD, with final compensation depending on factors such as location, travel, relevant prior experience, and specific skills.
Is relocation assistance provided?
No, this position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
What level of experience is required?
Candidates must have at least ten years of software engineering experience, including significant time operating at a Staff, Senior Staff, or equivalent individual contributor level on complex production systems.
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