Staff Software Engineer, App Promotion is open at Pinterest in San Francisco, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US; Remote, CA, WA, US. The posting gives a salary of $189K - $390K. Posted on Oct 6, 2026, and still on Pinterest’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you will own the engineering roadmap to take Pinterest’s App Install Optimization product from beta to GA, hardening the current alpha/beta experience, closing critical measurement gaps, and ensuring readiness across Ads Manager, backend services, and mobile clients. You will lay the groundwork for future optimizations (App Event Optimization, tROAS, and retargeting) by partnering with Ads Quality, ML, and…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Pinterest’s careers page.
Hiring at Pinterest
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

