Sr. Manager, Engineering – Delivery Serving Infrastructure

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 242,000 - 430,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Delivery Serving Infrastructure organization, overseeing framework foundations, developer experience, and core vertical infrastructure. You will drive reliability, performance, and efficiency while guiding architectural changes and shared APIs across teams.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape incident workflows, and partner with product leaders to deliver high-leverage infrastructure solutions, using AI to accelerate analysis and design while

Qualifications

• Experience leading software/infra teams.
• Deep knowledge of large-scale serving frameworks and low-latency execution.
• Proven ability to lead DevX initiatives, agentic infra tools, and incident workflows.
• Ability to move orgs from reactive maintenance to proactive resilience with testing, observability, and regression suites.
• Strong judgment balancing reliability, latency, scalability, product quality, velocity, and efficiency.
• Experience with search, ads delivery, ranking, experimentation, or high-scale content delivery systems.
• Proven use of AI to speed up engineering work with careful validation and accountability.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Drive system reliability and performance via profiling and fleet upgrades.
• Lead the Developer Experience pillar to build agentic foundations and automated incident workflows.
• Partner with product leadership to build high-leverage vertical infrastructure solutions.
• Guide design and rollout of platform changes including APIs, serving abstractions, release controls, and observability.
• Establish a high bar for quality and operational excellence through reviews and incident learnings.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders to grow judgment and influence.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, and documentation with governance.

Skills

Team leadership

Large-scale serving

Low latency

Reliability engineering

Observability

Incident investigation

AI in engineering

System architecture

Trade-off decisions

Content delivery systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Job description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI.

Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here.

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

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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

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.

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