Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Ads Platform

Pinterest Engineering; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 208,000 - 365,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest Engineering in the United States is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team. You will guide a high-caliber software engineering group, shaping strategy for a high-throughput, low-latency ad serving system and ensuring reliability across the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle.

You’ll leverage AI to speed analysis, debugging, and design exploration, while driving cost efficiency and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 2+ years of management experience.
• Proven experience managing software engineering teams and building high-performance backend or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience 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.
• Preferred qualifications: Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems.
• Preferred qualifications: Experience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling.
• Preferred qualifications: Experience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Ads Serving Platform team.
• Lead engineering team and technical strategy for 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.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Low-latency services

Programming languages (Java/C++/Go/Py)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Observability tooling

Job description

Pinterest Engineering in the United States is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team. You will guide a high-caliber software engineering group, shaping strategy for a high-throughput, low-latency ad serving system and ensuring reliability across the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle.

You’ll leverage AI to speed analysis, debugging, and design exploration, while driving cost efficiency and developer productivity.