Senior Manager of Code Foundations, Pinterest
$208.6-429.5k
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$208.6-429.5k
+ equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 4+ engineers
- Experience improving developer experience with a track record of identifying and removing friction in engineering workflows
- Strong technical background building or operating developer platforms such as source control systems, developer CLIs, developer environments, build systems or CI/CD
- Experience improving developer workflows and operating developer platforms at scale in large engineering environments, including ownership of on-call, reliability improvements and service health metrics
- Ability to partner effectively with a Tech Lead to align people leadership with technical direction
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and developer tools in day-to-day engineering work, with an ability to evaluate and adopt emerging tools effectively
- Familiarity with how AI is transforming developer workflows – code generation, code review, agent-driven development and developer environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Code Foundations team within Developer Foundations
- In this role you'll lead a team responsible for improving the daily development experience for every Pinterest engineer by shaping the core workflows developers rely on to write, review and ship code
- The team owns critical surfaces in the developer workflow including source control, developer CLIs, developer environments and code navigation
- Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers responsible for the language runtimes, codebase, and source control platform used by every Pinterest engineer, setting clear direction, execution standards and operational excellence for the platform
- Own the team's roadmap in partnership with the TL, balancing strategic initiatives with operational reliability
- Lead the agent-readiness definitions and certification for all Tier-1 repos, and establish language and monorepo standards and design enforcement
- Own the language experience portfolio, including runtimes, frameworks, libraries with an agent-first maintenance strategy
- Champion AI-native development practices across the team, including spec-to-code, agents.md curation, and agent effectiveness within large codebase best practices for the broader engineering organization
- Build a culture of developer empathy: understand the pain points of Pinterest engineers and translate them into high-impact improvements
- Establish and improve operational practices including on-call rotations, incident response and production health metrics
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure developer workflows integrate smoothly with underlying systems
- Hire and develop engineers, creating clear growth paths and a high-trust team environment
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and X, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 600M by late 2025.
With this type of success, Pinterest's future feels full of possibility. Recent industry chatter suggests that OpenAI may be eyeing the platform, which has sparked exciement for some and concern for others. While nothing is confirmed, the discussion highlights just how valuable Pinterest has become. Whether through potential partnerships or continues independent growth, Pinterest is very much going to keep on innovation and growing.
Kirsty
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Bill Ready
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinterest in 2022, Bill was the President of Commerce, Payments & Emerging Markets at Google.
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