Engineering Manager (Ads Serving Infrastructure)

Join Pinterest as an Engineering Manager for the Ads Serving Platform team. In this role, you will lead the engineering team responsible for delivering relevant ads efficiently and at scale. You will work across Ads and Core engineering teams to define platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration. You will also build and lead a team of software engineers, drive infrastructure performance and cost efficiency, and improve developer productivity.

• Lead the engineering team and platform responsible for delivering relevant ads reliably, efficiently, and at scale across Pinterest surfaces.
• Define durable platform capabilities, modernize frameworks, and unlock faster product iteration with high confidence in production.
• Drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls while supporting business growth.

• Demonstrated ability to make sound tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms
• 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
• Track record of meeting strict serving latency SLAs, operational targets, and optimizing cost-per-impression at scale
• Demonstrated success in hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering inclusive team environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and cross-functional partners
• Proven experience managing software engineering teams and building high-performance backend or infrastructure platforms
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python
• 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