Sr Software Engineer

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we're on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other's unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It's Possible. Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration and bring their passions to life. Shopping is a core part of this experience. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in the Shopping Platform Infrastructure organization. In this role, you will work on scaling our Shopping catalog systems by 10X, ensuring they are robust, reliable, and ready to power the future of Shopping on Pinterest. In addition, you will contribute to our company-wide Shopping strategy execution, enabling product discovery and driving business growth. What you'll do: Scale the Shopping Platform infrastructure by 10X, supporting exponential growth in product listings, merchants, and user engagements. Build large-scale, highly distributed systems for catalog ingestion, processing, enrichment, and retrieval, ensuring data is accurate, fresh and easy to access at massive scale. Contribute to the technical excellence in data pipelines, real-time data processing, and information retrieval, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as Flink, Spark, TiDB, and more. What we're looking for: 5+ years of relevant industry experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing. Deep technical expertise in catalog management, data pipelines, and real-time data processing. Experience building and owning large-scale, high-performance infrastructure powering shopping, recommendation, search, or other consumer-facing applications. Proficiency in backend programming languages such as Java or C++. A bias for action, innovation, and operational rigor in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people find inspiration and bring their passions to life. Shopping is a core part of this experience.