Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure

About the Position

Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure

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. We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Ads Serving Platform team. The Ads Serving Manager leads the engineering team and platform responsible for delivering relevant ads reliably, efficiently, and at scale across Pinterest surfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of high-caliber software engineers. You'll be responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering an inclusive, high-output team culture.
• 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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience
• 2+ years of Management experience
• Proven experience managing software engineering teams and building high-performance backend or infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrated success in 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.

Nice to Have

• Experience with ads delivery, recommendation or search serving, retrieval, ranking, or experimentation systems.
• Experience with serving-framework migrations, platform consolidation, or developer tooling.
• Experience with observability, production debugging, traffic management, or incident response.

We Offer

• Competitive base salary range: $208,454-$364,795 USD
• Equity
• Hybrid work model with in-person collaboration 1-2 times per week in Palo Alto or San Francisco

About the Company

At Pinterest, we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. We are an equal opportunity employer and make 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.

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