Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure
Core
Lead the Ads Serving Platform team to deliver relevant ads reliably, efficiently, and at scale across Pinterest surfaces, owning the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager (Ads Serving Infrastructure)
Builds
High-throughput, low-latency ad serving platform and durable platform capabilities
Domain
Internet / Advertising Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Team leadership, distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, infrastructure platforms, tradeoffs (latency/reliability/scalability/cost), Java/C++/Go/Python, operational excellence, AI integration
Preferred skills
Ads delivery, recommendation/search serving, serving-framework migrations, observability, production debugging, traffic management, incident response
Technologies
Java, C++, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Build and lead a high-caliber software engineering team; Lead technical strategy for high-throughput, low-latency ad serving; Ensure platform reliability and operational excellence; Drive infrastructure performance and cost efficiency; Improve developer productivity for ML feature integrations; Use AI to accelerate analysis and debugging; Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
