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About the Role
Pinterest is seeking a Manager II, Engineering to lead its Kubernetes Platform team. This team builds and operates the infrastructure and tooling that enable engineers to run reliable, scalable services on Kubernetes. You will lead engineers working on production systems that require dependability, security, efficiency, and ease of use. You will collaborate with partner teams to enhance the platform, reduce operational friction, and make informed decisions balancing reliability, speed, cost, and security.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of engineers responsible for Kubernetes platform infrastructure and supporting systems.
- Establish the team’s 12-month strategy, roadmap, and success measures.
- Improve the reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency of the platform.
- Drive architecture and technical decisions, building context quickly and involving experts.
- Build automation, standard configurations, and self-service paths to reduce manual work.
- Set high standards for operating production systems, including health, observability, on-call, incident response, and safe changes.
- Partner with engineering, product, finance, security, and cloud-provider teams on shared challenges.
- Recruit, coach, and develop engineers, empowering senior technical leaders and sustaining an inclusive team.
- Use AI to accelerate analysis, investigations, documentation, and repeatable workflows, applying judgment and verification.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, cloud systems, distributed systems, or similar technical areas.
- Experience managing and developing teams that build or operate large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, shared compute platforms, or other production systems.
- Experience setting a multi-quarter technical strategy and delivering through senior engineers.
- Technical experience in public cloud, highly available distributed systems, Kubernetes or shared-compute platforms, and production operations.
- A strong reliability mindset and experience leading teams responsible for the operational quality of production systems.
- Experience leading cross-functional infrastructure programs and communicating tradeoffs to partner teams.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work.
- Strong record of evaluating AI-assisted work through testing, source checking, data validation, or peer review.
- High integrity and ownership: protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.
Skills
- AI
- Kubernetes
- Public cloud
- Highly available distributed systems
- Production operations
- Infrastructure as code
- Observability
- Networking
- Production upgrades
- GPU or machine-learning infrastructure
- Capacity management
- Cloud cost
- Resource allocation
Location
- Remote (US-based applicants only)
Work Type
- Hybrid (in-office 1-2 times per quarter)
Experience Level
- Manager II
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
Salary/Compensations
- $177,185—$364,795 USD
Benefits
- Equity
- Information regarding benefits available for this position can be found here.
About the Company
- Millions of people around the world come to Pinterest to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime.
- Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
- AI is a powerful partner at Pinterest that augments creativity and amplifies impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- 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.
- Pinterest also considers 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.