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About the Role
As an Engineering Manager II, Runtime Services at Pinterest, you will lead a new team responsible for two major platforms: Pinterest’s large-scale asynchronous job scheduling and execution platform, and its anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and ML monitoring platform. You will establish the strategy, charter, and operating model for this team, driving the technical roadmap and evolution of these platforms to advance automation, self-service onboarding, resource efficiency, and reliability. You will also build strong partnerships across Pinterest to understand customer needs, drive adoption, and deliver measurable improvements in developer productivity and data-driven decision-making. A key aspect of this role involves strengthening operational excellence by improving observability, incident response, service health, documentation, and engineering practices. You will hire, coach, and grow a high-performing team, fostering an inclusive culture of ownership, learning, and continuous improvement. Additionally, you will leverage AI to accelerate planning, technical exploration, documentation, and operational analysis, ensuring quality and correctness through sound judgment and verification.
Responsibilities
- Establish the strategy, charter and operating model for a new team responsible for two major platforms.
- Lead the technical roadmap & evolution of these platforms, advancing automation, self-service onboarding, resource efficiency and reliability.
- Build strong partnerships with teams across Pinterest to understand customer needs, drive adoption and deliver measurable improvements in developer productivity and data-driven decision-making.
- Strengthen operational excellence across both platforms by improving observability, incident response, service health, documentation and engineering practices.
- Hire, coach and grow a high-performing team while establishing an inclusive culture of ownership, learning and continuous improvement.
- Use AI to accelerate planning, technical exploration, documentation and operational analysis, applying sound judgment and verification to ensure the quality and correctness of final outcomes.
Requirements
- Minimum 9 years of software engineering experience, including deep expertise in distributed platforms and solid familiarity with backend systems & interest in algorithms in anomaly detection domain.
- Minimum 2 years of engineering management experience leading strong platform & backend highly available engineering teams.
- Strong technical foundation in platform reliability, observability, Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure, data systems and developer experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous execution, workflow orchestration and passion for machine learning algorithms.
- Experience setting technical strategy and delivering meaningful improvements to platform scalability, operational efficiency, customer adoption or engineering velocity.
- Ability to lead work across platforms and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
- Clear communication skills, strong technical judgment, and a people-focused leadership approach.
- Experience using AI to accelerate engineering planning, analysis and execution, with a clear approach to validating accuracy, quality and security.
Skills
- Distributed platforms
- Backend systems
- Algorithms in anomaly detection
- Platform reliability
- Observability
- Kubernetes
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data systems
- Developer experience
- Distributed systems
- Asynchronous execution
- Workflow orchestration
- Machine learning algorithms
- Technical strategy
- Platform scalability
- Operational efficiency
- Customer adoption
- Engineering velocity
- AI for engineering planning
- AI for engineering analysis
- AI for engineering execution
Location
- Anywhere in the country
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 9 years of software engineering experience
- Minimum 2 years of engineering management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $208,592—$429,454 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.
- 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.
- Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day.
- It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most.
- Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love.
- As a Pinterest employee, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward.
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 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.