Senior Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety Systems

Pinterest; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a senior engineer to lead the design and delivery of large-scale safety and content quality systems. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional roadmaps, and push for high-impact projects across product, design, data science and other teams.

You will leverage AI to accelerate execution, improve quality, and contribute to our culture of innovation while ensuring data integrity and responsible AI use.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and shipping large-scale software in a product-driven environment.
• 2+ years as Engineering Manager with coaching and team development.
• Experience leading design of complex, high-performance distributed systems and microservices.
• Proven track record delivering projects with multiple dependencies and stakeholders.
• Experience with big data processing frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Flink) and building data pipelines.
• Domain experience in building Trust and Safety systems at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow.
• High integrity and ownership: protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and be accountable for final deliverables.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable, reliable and performant software systems to power content quality and safety infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to other engineers on the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, data science and other engineering teams to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact projects.
• Drive engineering best practices and processes to improve software quality, reliability and productivity.
• Actively contribute to Pinterest's technical culture through code reviews, tech talks, open source projects and recruiting.
• Leverage AI to seek faster execution and explore alternative options.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Big data processing

AI in workflow

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Microservices

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a senior engineer to lead the design and delivery of large-scale safety and content quality systems. You will mentor engineers, drive cross-functional roadmaps, and push for high-impact projects across product, design, data science and other teams.

You will leverage AI to accelerate execution, improve quality, and contribute to our culture of innovation while ensuring data integrity and responsible AI use.