Staff Software Engineer
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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $271k versus about $195k 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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Staff Software Engineer- Growth Performance Marketing joins the performance marketing engineering team to manage end-to-end systems converting marketing spend into measured user growth. This role involves leading the technical roadmap for attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management while designing scalable, privacy-resilient measurement stacks. The engineer will build production systems for ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and automated bidding strategies while ensuring reliability for spend-critical systems. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, authoring design documents, and collaborating with data science and product partners. Required skills include 7+ years of backend experience, proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, or SQL, and expertise in distributed systems and big data ecosystems. The role requires deep knowledge of paid media platforms like Google Ads and Meta, as well as mobile measurement partners like AppsFlyer to solve complex conversion optimization problems.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.
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