Sr. Software Engineer, Advertiser and Seller

Senior Staff Software Engineer – Advertiser and Seller Experiences

We're hiring a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Advertiser and Seller Experiences org. Our organization focuses on creating the most intuitive, intelligent, and trusted platforms for advertisers and sellers, turning Pinterest user intent into business growth.

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives, from problem framing and technical strategy through architecture, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Shape advertiser and seller platforms for scale, reliability, and quality, ensuring experiences are intuitive, intelligent, and trusted across ad buying, reporting, and seller workflows.
• Build and evolve ML, GenAI and AI-assisted advertiser and seller experiences with strong validation and guardrails. For example, intelligent recommendations, automated insights, and tools that improve platform usability without compromising trust.
• Contribute to advertiser and seller platform initiatives that span teams, creating streamlined flows and decisioning pathways that improve time to value, campaign performance, and seller efficiency.
• Partner where appropriate on performance measurement, advertiser insights, and data-driven pathways that connect platform engagement to business outcomes, ensuring strategy is measurable rather than anecdotal.
• Drive technical decisions using clear tradeoffs across revenue, conversion, advertiser and seller experience quality, and engagement.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for technical design, engineering quality, and production readiness across the organization.
• Use AI to accelerate work across exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis, while maintaining strong judgment, rigorous validation, and accountability for outcomes.

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.
• Strong track record in ads, advertiser tooling, seller platforms, or other adjacent large-scale domains, including leadership on cross-team technical initiatives.
• Deep experience in systems design, API design, and data-intensive systems, with the ability to navigate tradeoffs in performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Experience building or partnering on ML, AI, or GenAI-adjacent systems, with a pragmatic understanding of where these technologies add value and how to deploy them responsibly.
• Advertiser platform, seller experience, or ads integrations experience is a strong plus.
• Experience with growth, measurement, funnel optimization, or ads performance ecosystems is a plus.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction without directly owning every implementation detail.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our Pin Flex page to learn more about our working model.

This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time per week and must be commutable to one of the following offices: SF/Palo Alto Office.

US based applicants only.

$245,402 — $429,454 USD

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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