Principal Engineer, Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure is open at Pinterest in San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA,US. The posting gives a salary of $285K - $450K. Posted on Jul 31, 2026, and still on Pinterest’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Define and drive the long-term technical vision for indexing and retrieval infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping, aligning architecture investments to measurable improvements in freshness, quality, coverage, reliability, and cost efficiency. Lead cross-org initiatives to modernize Pinterest’s indexing architecture, including advancing unified real-time and incremental retrieval systems that support…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Pinterest’s careers page.
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Pinterest has 163 open roles right now, 74 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Product. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $250K. See all its roles
