# Staff Software Engineer, Growth Performance Marketing

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $177k – $365k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Google Ads, Meta Ads, Tiktok Ads, Snap Ads, Python, Java, Scala, SQL, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, Machine Learning Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-06-02

> Lead the technical roadmap for Pinterest's performance marketing platform, driving hands-on engineering for attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management systems. Design and evolve the measurement stack, automate bidding strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify growth opportunities.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do:

* Lead the technical roadmap for the performance marketing platform, defining the highest-impact investments across attribution, bidding, budget optimization, and campaign management
* Drive hands-on engineering across ad platform integrations, event pipelines, and production systems that deploy and measure marketing spend
* Design and evolve the measurement stack — attribution models, conversion signal collection, incrementality methodology, and privacy-resilient approaches as platform signals degrade
* Develop systems that automate and optimize bidding strategies and campaign experimentation at scale
* Drive cross-team technical initiatives with ads platform, data warehouse, and mobile teams — authoring design documents and building alignment across engineering orgs
* Own system reliability and operational health for spend-critical systems where downtime or bugs have direct financial impact
* Collaborate with marketing, data science, and product partners to identify growth opportunities and turn them into engineered solutions
* Mentor and develop engineers on the team, establishing technical best practices and raising the bar on system design
* Use AI to accelerate your own work—across exploration, drafting, analysis, and synthesis—while maintaining strong judgment, rigorous validation, and accountability for outcomes

## What we’re looking for:

* 7+ years of experience building and shipping backend systems, with hands-on experience supporting performance marketing
* Strong understanding of paid media platforms — Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, Snap, or similar — and the operational realities of integrating with their APIs at scale
* Deep understanding of attribution methodologies (last click, multi-touch, SKAN, probabilistic vs. deterministic), incrementality testing, and conversion optimization, with hands-on experience integrating mobile measurement partners (AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, or similar) across mobile clients and server-side APIs
* Experience with near real-time systems for bidding, budget optimization, and conversion event delivery — you understand the mechanics well enough to evolve existing systems and propose improvements
* Strong proficiency building and operating data pipelines and services using Python or Java/Scala, plus SQL; experience with modern big data ecosystems is a plus
* Strong systems design skills across distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and service-oriented backends
* Familiarity with ML infrastructure concepts and ability to build systems that support ML workloads
* Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate your workflow while maintaining high standards for verification, data integrity, and ownership of final outputs
* Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Relocation Statement:

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:

We recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.
This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times every 6-months and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.

US based applicants only
$177,185—$364,795 USD

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