Senior Manager of Engineering (Delivery Serving Infrastructure)

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Delivery Serving Infrastructure organization, overseeing serving framework foundations, developer experience, and core vertical infrastructure. You will drive reliability, performance, and efficiency, while guiding AI-assisted analysis, design exploration, and incident workflows to improve product-serving platforms.

You will mentor senior engineers and partner with product leadership to deliver high-leverage vertical infrastructure solutions and

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading software/infra engineering teams.
• Experience building and scaling large-scale serving frameworks.
• Strong background in reliability, observability, and incident handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead Delivery Serving Infrastructure across framework foundations, DevX, and core verticals.
• Drive reliability, performance optimization and cost-efficiency via profiling and fleet upgrades.
• Mentor senior engineers, set technical direction, and improve engineering judgment.
• Oversee AI-assisted analysis, design exploration, debugging, and documentation with governance.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

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
• 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

Experience with recommendation, search, ads delivery, retrieval, ranking, experimentation, or other high-scale content delivery systemsStrong 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 deliverablesExperience managing software engineering teams and leading infrastructure engineering organizationsProven ability to lead developer experience initiatives, agentic infrastructure tools, and incident investigation workflowsDemonstrated 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.”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 informationStrong systems and operational judgment, with a track record of making sound tradeoffs across reliability, latency, scalability, product quality, engineering velocity, and infrastructure efficiencyBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent experienceDeep knowledge of large-scale serving frameworks, low-latency execution, reliability engineering, and infrastructure efficiency