Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Signal

Hybrid

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $177,185–$364,795 / yr
Posted: 15 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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.

Pinterest currently has 41 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Ads Measurement Signal

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As a Staff Software Engineer on Pinterest’s Conversion Visibility team, you will lead the backend architecture and implementation of a GenAI-powered Conversion Health agent, focusing on privacy-preserving connections between on-Pinterest intent and offsite conversions. Your responsibilities include designing services and data flows to reason over Event Quality Scores and conversion funnels at scale, enhancing existing GenAI applications with robust prompts and evaluation checks, and integrating the sub-agent with downstream ads products like PCL and ROAS bidding. You will also consolidate measurement context layers into high-quality AI-consumable signals and collaborate closely with Product, Operations, Sales, and other teams to translate pain points into actionable agent skills. Ideal candidates have 8+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed systems, a strong background in ads measurement, proficiency in SQL and data analysis, and the ability to drive complex initiatives from vision through launch while fostering an evolving GenAI culture within the organization.

Skills

Python Java Go SQL Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD GenAI ML APIs ROAS CPA Event Quality Scores Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins

What you'll do

Own design and implementation of GenAI-powered Conversion Health agent for ads marketplace.
Evolve existing GenAI applications by improving retrieval quality and adding safety checks.
Design API contracts and workflows to surface product-aware alerts and recommendations.
Consolidate measurement context layer into high-quality, AI-consumable signals for agents.
Translate measurement pain points into agent skills and iterate on internal-first experiences.
Lead evolving GenAI culture and collaboration model across organizations for sustained gains.

What we're looking for

8+ years experience in backend or full-stack software engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record of shipping GenAI/ML-powered products from integration to online/offline metrics.
Extensive ads domain expertise including conversion tracking and attribution pipelines.
Strong proficiency in product scoping, data analysis, and experimentation with large datasets.
Demonstrated technical leadership in driving complex initiatives from vision through launch.
Experience upleveling engineers in AI tooling and best practices across teams.

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