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About the Role

Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team. This role leads the engineering team and platform responsible for delivering relevant ads reliably, efficiently, and at scale across Pinterest surfaces. The Ads Serving Platform owns the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle and focuses on reliability, performance, compliance, developer productivity, and cost efficiency. You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.

Responsibilities

Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers, including hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture.
Lead engineering team and technical strategy for a high-throughput, low-latency ad serving platform.
Ensure platform reliability, high availability, and operational excellence across the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle.
Drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls while supporting business growth.
Improve developer productivity and platform flexibility for product and ML feature integrations.
Use AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and iteration while applying sound engineering judgment and validation.
Raise the quality bar through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and operational excellence.
Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.

Requirements

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

Skills

Distributed systems
Online serving
Low-latency services
Infrastructure platforms
Java
C++
Go
Python
AI
Ads delivery
Recommendation systems
Search serving
Retrieval
Ranking
Experimentation systems
Serving-framework migrations
Platform consolidation
Developer tooling
Observability
Production debugging
Traffic management
Incident response

Location

Palo Alto
SF

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Manager

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

$208,454—$364,795 USD

Benefits

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

About the Company

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.
Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

Equal Opportunity

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 characteristic (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.