This role pays more than
96%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$272,622
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$367k
versus about
$224k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.
Pinterest currently has
82 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$164,695–$337,990
across 82 roles with salary data.
As Director of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform, you will lead a high-performing organization of engineers and managers to drive the strategic vision and execution for core and ads serving platforms. You will be responsible for overseeing infrastructure that ensures high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and ads across all surfaces while defining multi-year architecture to improve reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. The role involves partnering with Product, ML, and Infrastructure leaders to align technical roadmaps with business goals like revenue and safety. You will manage the modernization of the serving stack and utilize AI/LLM-powered tooling to accelerate analysis and debugging. Key requirements include extensive experience in distributed systems, large-scale delivery infrastructure, and performance trade-offs. Candidates must possess strong leadership skills to develop leaders and translate complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders.
What does a Engineering Director earn?
Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Data Processing
Cloud Infrastructure
Telemetry
Alerting
Load-shedding
Rate-limiting
Encryption
Access Control
SOPs
Incident Management
Formal Verification
SLOs
Data Replication