Manager II, Engineering, Serving Infrastructure

The posting, as Pinterest wrote it

About Pinterest

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Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Serving Reliability & DevX team. This leader will guide the engineering team responsible for serving reliability, testing frameworks, and developer experience across ads and consumer serving systems. The team focuses on catching issues before broad production rollout through robust reliability frameworks (Safe Deploys, testing, PinConf migration, decider ACA, regression testing) and advancing infrastructure modernization (PinCompute, Pinconf adoption, continuous profiling, fleet upgrades) while maintaining deep expertise in large-scale serving platforms.

You will work across Ads and Consumer engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.

What you’ll do

• Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers. You'll be responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture.
• Lead engineering team and strategy focused on serving reliability across both ads and consumer serving platforms, production change management at scale, and developer experience.
• Ensure platform reliability, high availability, and operational excellence across the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle.
• Build and maintain safeguard automation, including canarying rollouts, configuration verification, automated regression testing, and launch readiness frameworks to eliminate toil and catch issues prior to broad production releases.
• Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives, ensuring serving infrastructure is adopting company wide advancements and fleet upgrades.
• Drive operational excellence, infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls while supporting business growth at scale.
• Use AI

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times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: Palo Alto OR SF.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here .

US based applicants only
$208,454 — $364,795 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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