Cloud Architecture Manager, Pinterest
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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
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience leading teams that focus on large-scale cloud architecture implementations using AWS services (EC2, EBS, R53 etc.) and IaC (Terraform, CFN etc.)
- Experience working with Cloud service providers, preferably Amazon Web Services
- Excellent skills in communicating complex issues to an audience outside the infra domain, and championing strategies to key stakeholders
Desirable
- Strong networking/routing background including global routing and load balancing experience
- Experience with globally distributed data storage engines
- Experience with infrastructure performance monitoring tools and optimization practices
- Experience with modernizing legacy architectures and driving golden paths/best practices
What the job involves
- Pinterest is seeking a skilled Manager for our team of Cloud Architecture experts who make a significant impact on one of the largest-scale, cloud-based infrastructures in the world
- As a member of the Cloud Foundation organization, you lead in the areas of cloud architecture, infrastructure efficiency, and availability across the company
- This role is front-and-center leading cloud systems engineering at massive scale
- You will forge cutting-edge innovations in partnership with leaders in cloud foundations and infrastructure to create world-class performance and stability for 500M+ Pinterest users
- You are a thought leader, building new and better standards and systems for 1500+ Pinterest software engineers
- Lead a team of highly-skilled Cloud Systems engineers to deliver team and Pillar OKRs
- Form strong partnerships with Technical Leaders to scale the impact of your team
- Collaborate closely with other engineering and product teams to align on shared goals and shared responsibility for delivering robust, scalable systems
- Evangelize team charter and mission around building a scalable, fault-tolerant and efficient cloud-based system across Pinterest
- Create a healthy team culture of clear expectations, career development, succession strategy and skills redundancy throughout the team
- Build the team by hiring great talent and developing the leadership abilities of employees in the organization
- Identify areas of improvement within services, automation, and secure proper resources to implement them
- Use processes and metrics to manage operational and technical quality of the team
- Act as part of the IMOC (Incident Management On Call) rotation for Pinterest Tech Foundations
- Work with cross-functional partners and vendors to set team direction by translating strategy into tangible actions
- Find and pursue opportunities across Pinterest for higher efficiency and cost effectiveness
- Present topics around Pinterest cloud systems at conferences and industry events
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 Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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