Overview

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

Production Engineering at Pinterest is an evolution of our Site Reliability Engineering organization blending a hybrid of systems and software engineering with a focus on scaling, resiliency, reliability, performance and efficiency. We build and integrate software, increase automation, and infuse our knowledge and best practices into our Platform products so we can scale our large distributed systems to keep our customers happy and our Pinners inspired. We develop short and long term embedded engagements with our engineering partners to remove barriers, up-level reliability & best practices, and maintain a high consistent bar for reliability in a fast paced environment. Our mission is to improve reliability while increasing engineering velocity, reducing toil and KTLO impact for both ourselves and our customers: fast, efficient, quality — we will accomplish all three!

What you'll do

• Lead our engineers to deliver on the biggest impact work across engineering to ensure we infuse best practices into our products relating to reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency
• Drive technical architecture discussions, including making decisions for technology or applications you have not previously worked with
• Continuously assess your team's performance, address and coach under-performance, and recognize and promote high performance
• Create an inclusive and welcoming workplace where every team member feels valued and supported
• Foster an environment of open and honest communication, allow team members to be safe to fail, encourage risk taking with a fail-fast mentality, and establish forums for idea sharing
• Empower engineers to develop their careers by aligning their strengths with projects, long-term skill development, personalities, and work styles
• Create an inspiring team charter and direction that align with the goals of the broader Production Engineering organization
• Develop strong partnerships with Product & Program Management across infrastructure by communicating a clear vision and priorities
• Establish team norms around planning, execution, and continuous improvement

What we're looking for

• 3+ years experience managing teams within an SRE, Production Engineering or other Platform/Infrastructure organizations
• Customer obsession: ability to work across engineering disciplines and influence without authority
• Familiarity with SDLC concepts and use cases for SCM tools, Build platforms, test frameworks, CI/CD products
• Familiar with usage and high level architecture of data platform technologies (relational databases, storage & caching, key value stores, time series data stores, etc.)
• Strong domain expertise in reliability concepts and best practices with the ability to provide thought leadership
• Hands-on familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Knowledge of Linux systems internals and networking
• Thrive in an environment with ambiguity; able to be self-sufficient and prioritize high-impact projects
• Infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, ElasticSearch, ZooKeeper, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Bias toward action; able to drive resolution with data, experience and judgment

In-Office Requirement

• We let the type of work guide collaboration style. We're not always in an office, but we gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and can be located anywhere in the country.

Relocation

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. We are sharing the base salary range for this position; the role is eligible for equity. Final salary is based on location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only

$170,371 — $350,763 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Pinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or any other status protected by law. If you require accommodations during the application process, please complete the form for support.