Engineering Manager, High-Throughput Ads Platform

Pinterest; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team in Palo Alto. You will guide the engineering group responsible for reliable, scalable ad-serving across Pinterest surfaces and collaborate with Ads and Core teams to modernize frameworks and enable rapid product iteration.

You will hire, mentor, and develop engineers, drive performance, and ensure operational excellence while applying AI to enhance analytics and development workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience leading software teams and hiring.
• Strong background in distributed systems and low-latency services.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Go, or Python.
• Experience with AI-assisted development is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-caliber software engineering team.
• Set technical strategy for a high-throughput ad serving platform.
• Ensure platform reliability, high availability, and operational excellence.
• Drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance.
• Improve developer productivity and enable ML feature integration.
• Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Hiring & mentoring

Distributed systems

Low-latency services

Communication

Java

C++

Go

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Pinterest is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team in Palo Alto. You will guide the engineering group responsible for reliable, scalable ad-serving across Pinterest surfaces and collaborate with Ads and Core teams to modernize frameworks and enable rapid product iteration.

You will hire, mentor, and develop engineers, drive performance, and ensure operational excellence while applying AI to enhance analytics and development workflows.