This role pays more than
99%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$225,500
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$367k
versus about
$200k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.
Pinterest currently has
82 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$164,695–$337,990
across 82 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Engineer, Shopping & Delivery Infra, you will join the delivery infrastructure organization to lead the technical strategy and execution for Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping. You will define long-term visions for indexing architecture, modernize systems with unified real-time and incremental retrieval, and build shared platform capabilities like common metrics and tuning surfaces. Your daily work involves partnering with engineering, product, and ML leaders to resolve trade-offs regarding freshness, quality, coverage, and cost efficiency. The role requires deep expertise in large-scale search, recommendation, or ads retrieval systems and distributed infrastructure. You will utilize AI tools to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and documentation while ensuring high standards for operational excellence. This position solves critical technical challenges in candidate generation for discovery experiences at scale across multiple product surfaces.
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