The Core Serving and Retrieval infra group provides frameworks and hosted solutions for multiple technologies forming the backend building blocks for all recommendations and search product teams at Pinterest. This includes,
- Serving Infra: Recommendation/search serving infra for all Pinterest surfaces (Home Feed, Search, Related pins, notifications etc),
- Retrieval Infra: Vector, token and Hybrid search as a service - the team provides search (vector, token and hybrid) as a service to all product teams. This includes hosting 100's of clusters indexing Billions of documents and enabling highly performant search functionality spanning a wide variety of workloads.
- Graph based recommendations - Graph based random walk recommendation engine on Pinterest entities.
In this role, you will be responsible for the following:
- Layout the technical roadmap for retrieval and Serving systems at Pinterest in keeping with the advancements in the industry and emerging product needs with Pinterest.
- Design and build large scale, high performance recommendation / search systems. And keep improving performance, scalability and stability.
- Drive cross functional collaborations with partner teams to add new functionalities to support all kinds of product innovations.
- Develop new high performance subsystems to support product innovation.
- Simplify and unify the serving stack to unlock faster product iterations.
- Mentor and develop team members technical and leadership skills
Must Have Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of industry experience
- 2+ years of experience in retrieval infrastructure (Token and/or Vector Search)
- 2+ yrs experience as a tech lead and leading efforts across teams and organizations
- Strong problem solving skills
- Experience on building high scale distributed system
- Experience on building realtime enabled systems
- Knowledge on search or recommendation system
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.
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