Pinterest

Sr. Manager, Engineering - Delivery Serving Infrastructure

Pinterest • $242K — $429K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
  • Deep knowledge of large-scale serving frameworks and reliability engineering
  • Proven track record in leading developer experience initiatives
  • Experience transitioning engineering teams from reactive to proactive approaches
  • Strong systems judgment with a focus on reliability and scalability
  • Familiarity with high-scale content delivery systems like recommendation and search
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the Delivery Serving Infrastructure organization
  • Oversee infrastructure modernization and framework evolution
  • Drive system reliability and performance optimization
  • Lead the Developer Experience (DevX) initiatives
  • Partner with product leadership for high-leverage infrastructure solutions
  • Guide the design and rollout of critical platform changes
  • Establish high standards for technical quality and operational excellence
  • Mentor senior engineers to enhance technical judgment and influence

Benefits

  • Equitable and inclusive workplace culture
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship
  • Flexible working model with hybrid in-office requirements
  • Access to equity options
  • Commitment to transparency in salary and benefits
Full Job Description
Pinterest is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Delivery Serving Infrastructure organization. This role will oversee serving framework foundations, developer experience, and core vertical infrastructure, ensuring highly reliable, efficient operations and facilitating high-leverage solutions for product and developer teams. What you'll do: - Lead and grow the Delivery Serving Infrastructure organization across framework foundations, developer experience, and core vertical teams. - Oversee infrastructure modernization initiatives) and continuous framework evolution and consolidation. - Drive system reliability, performance optimization, and efficiency through continuous profiling and fleet instance type upgrades. - Lead the Developer Experience (DevX) pillar to build agentic foundations, system debugging capabilities, and automated incident management workflows. - Partner with product leadership to build high-leverage vertical infrastructure solutions, business intelligence agents, and product serving platforms. - Guide the design, rollout, and adoption of critical platform changes, including shared APIs, serving abstractions, release controls, observability, and debugging capabilities. - Establish a high bar for technical quality and operational excellence through architecture reviews, incident learnings, and scalable engineering standards. - Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, growing technical judgment and influence across the Delivery Infrastructure organization. - Use AI to accelerate analysis, design exploration, debugging, and documentation, while applying engineering judgment and verification to ensure correctness, reliability, and quality. What we're looking for: - Experience managing software engineering teams and leading infrastructure engineering organizations. - Deep knowledge of large-scale serving frameworks, low-latency execution, reliability engineering, and infrastructure efficiency. - Proven ability to lead developer experience initiatives, agentic infrastructure tools, and incident investigation workflows. - Demonstrated ability to move engineering orgs from reactive maintenance to proactive resilience. Experience implementing sophisticated testing frameworks, automated regression suites, and observability practices that significantly improve MTTR and reduce developer on-call burden." - Strong systems and operational judgment, with a track record of making sound tradeoffs across reliability, latency, scalability, product quality, engineering velocity, and infrastructure efficiency. - Experience with recommendation, search, ads delivery, retrieval, ranking, experimentation, or other high-scale content delivery systems. - Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve the speed and quality of day-to-day engineering work, including technical analysis, prototyping, design exploration, debugging, documentation, or synthesis of complex information. - Strong record of critically evaluating AI-assisted work through testing, source-checking, data validation, and peer review; protects sensitive data, avoids over-reliance on AI, and remains accountable for final decisions and deliverables. - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experience. Relocation Statement: - This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model. In-Office Requirement: - This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration1-2 times per week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: PaloAlto(preferred) or San Francisco #LI-HYBRID #LI-AG8 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 $242,402-$429,545 USD

About Pinterest

Pinterest is a social media platform that allows users to discover and save ideas for recipes, home decor, fashion, and more. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Pinterest has over 400 million monthly active users and is available in over 30 languages. The company's mission is to help people discover and do what they love.
Learn more about Pinterest
Size
3,225 employees
Market Cap
$16 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$128.3 million
Founded
2009
5 Year Trend
+53.9%
Revenue
$1.6 billion
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