Engineering Manager (Serving Infrastructure)

Pinterest as an Engineering Manager for the Ads Serving Platform team. In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for delivering relevant ads efficiently and at scale. You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration. You will also build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers, ensuring platform reliability, high availability, and operational excellence. Additionally, you will drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls while supporting business growth.

Lead the engineering team and platform responsible for delivering relevant ads reliably, efficiently, and at scale across Pinterest surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.
• Drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls while supporting business growth.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Management experience

7+ years of Engineering experience

• Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Proven experience managing software engineering teams and building high-performance backend or infrastructure platforms
• Track record of meeting strict serving latency SLAs, operational targets, and optimizing cost-per-impression at scale
• Demonstrated success in hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering inclusive team environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners
• Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering workflows, with a rigorous approach to testing, validation, and responsible use

Preferred

• Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems
• Experience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling
• Experience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response

USD 208,454 - 364,795