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We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for a team transforming how merchants onboard and activate through agent enabled experiences. You will partner with Product and engineering leaders to shape the roadmap, prototype innovative ideas and deliver reliable systems that use merchant signals and personalized recommendations to create measurable business impact.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable, MCP first systems for merchant onboarding, activation and growth experiences.
- Partner with Product to shape a growth roadmap, identify high value opportunities and convert the strongest concepts into production experiences.
- Design integrations that apply high quality merchant signals and personalized recommendations across Pinterest surfaces and approved external agent ecosystems.
- Build agent enabled experiences that improve merchant readiness and campaign creation, with clear measurement of their contribution to business impact.
- Use AI to accelerate prototyping, analysis and iteration while applying judgment and verification to ensure quality, reliability and user trust.
- Improve the team's AI harness across development, testing, quality validation and service operations.
- Raise the technical bar through clear technical direction, design reviews and coaching that helps engineers make thoughtful decisions and deliver with strong ownership.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems spanning product surfaces, backend services, data signals and external integrations.
- Experience designing agent enabled systems and MCP based integrations, with strong judgment around reliability, security, data quality and user trust.
- Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps, prototype new ideas and make technical tradeoffs that support growth goals.
- Experience in experimentation, measurement and causal thinking, with the ability to connect product and technical decisions to business impact.
- Experience improving the effectiveness of an AI first engineering team through technical direction, design reviews, coaching and practical improvements to AI assisted development, testing and operations.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day to day workflow for relevant outputs, while critically evaluating and verifying AI assisted work.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
Relocation Statement
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement
- At Pinterest, We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices San Francisco, Palo Alto, Seattle, New York City or Los Angeles.
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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.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Skills Required
- Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex software systems spanning product surfaces, backend services, data signals, and external integrations
- Experience designing agent-enabled systems and MCP-based integrations
- Strong judgment regarding reliability, security, data quality, and user trust
- Experience partnering with Product to shape roadmaps, prototype ideas, and make technical tradeoffs supporting growth goals
- Experience with experimentation, measurement, and causal thinking connected to business impact
- Experience improving AI-first engineering teams through technical direction, design reviews, coaching, and AI-assisted development, testing, and operations
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve workflow speed and quality while critically evaluating and verifying AI-assisted work
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
Pinterest Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pinterest and has not been reviewed or approved by Pinterest.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in core technical roles, with clearly defined base, bonus, and RSU components. Vesting schedules and pay elements are articulated clearly, supporting visibility into total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include substantial paid parental leave globally alongside fertility and family‑building benefits, adoption assistance, and dedicated caregiver supports. Communications also highlight a phased return‑to‑work approach.
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Flexible Benefits — PinFlex enables role‑dependent hybrid/remote work with home‑office, connectivity, and commuter support, plus the option to work internationally for a limited period with approval. Time away is reinforced by a paid company shutdown and generous vacation framing.
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What We Do
Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.
