Senior Staff Software Engineer, Notifications & Growth Platform

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Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, CA
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$208,592–$429,454 / yr
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5 days ago
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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.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Notifications & Growth Platform

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The Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Notifications & Growth Platform joins the Notifications & Growth Platform organization to build systems powering user communication and product-led growth. In this role, you will shape the technical vision and multi-year roadmap, making durable architectural decisions to improve delivery quality, reliability, and scalability for push, email, and in-app notifications. You will lead cross-functional delivery of end-to-end solutions, including orchestration, targeting hooks, scheduling, and internationalized experiences for global markets. Key responsibilities include defining success metrics like engagement lift and latency while driving measurable improvements. The role requires over 10 years of software engineering experience, technical leadership across multiple services, and experience with ML, AI, or GenAI-adjacent systems. You must demonstrate the ability to influence stakeholders and identify data-driven opportunities for user growth.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1223 postings across 78 companies.

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AI GenAI i18n

What you'll do

  • Shape the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the Notifications & Growth Platform organization.
  • Lead cross-functional delivery of end-to-end solutions for notifications and in-app growth experiences.
  • Make durable architectural decisions to improve delivery quality, reliability, and scalability of growth systems.
  • Define success metrics and operating cadences to drive measurable improvements aligned to organizational OKRs.
  • Use AI tools to accelerate exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis of technical work.
  • Partner with Product, Data Science, and Design teams to ship internationalized experiences for global markets.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a Staff, Senior Staff, or equivalent-level IC.
  • Experience building or partnering on ML-, AI-, or GenAI-adjacent systems.
  • Proven technical leadership driving architecture across multiple services and teams.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Notifications and growth platform experience (preferred).
  • Ability to dive into data and identify opportunities to drive user growth (preferred).
  • US based applicants only.

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