Staff Software Engineer
PayPal
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $187,375–$240,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $271k versus about $214k for comparable roles.
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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 82 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $164,695–$337,990 across 82 roles with salary data.
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As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Tools on the IT Collaboration and Productivity Engineering team, you will serve as the technical lead for connecting third-party AI tools to internal systems. You will be responsible for the end-to-end connectivity of external tools like Claude and Glean, while building custom MCP servers to expose internal platforms such as Slack, Google Workspace, and Atlassian. Your work involves designing secure integration architectures using OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, SAML, and mTLS, alongside managing edge routing via Envoy. You will develop automation scripts in Python, Go, or TypeScript to streamline connector lifecycles and manage infrastructure-as-code. This role solves the complex challenge of establishing secure, scalable, and consistent AI connectivity for a large workforce while mentoring other engineers and ensuring robust security protocols across all integrated enterprise AI tools.
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Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
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