Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure
Quick summary
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Location
- Palo Alto, CASan Francisco, CA
- Salary
- $208,454–$364,795 / yr
- Posted
- 6 days ago
- Freshness
- Confirmed live today
- Nearby
- 99+ roles within 25 mi
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Salary context
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $163,600–$254,616 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $287k versus about $209k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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 69 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,631–$339,078 across 62 roles with salary data.
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At a glance
TL;DR · Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure
The Manager II, Engineering, Ads Serving Infrastructure leads the Ads Serving Platform team to deliver relevant ads reliably and efficiently across various surfaces. This role involves building and leading a high-caliber software engineering team, overseeing hiring, performance management, and career development. You will define technical strategies for high-throughput, low-latency ad serving platforms, ensuring operational excellence, cost efficiency, and compliance across the end-to-end ad-request lifecycle. Key responsibilities include modernizing frameworks, improving developer productivity, and integrating product and ML features. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, online serving, and infrastructure platforms using languages like Java, C++, Go, or Python. You will solve complex problems regarding serving latency SLAs, traffic management, and platform consolidation while utilizing AI to accelerate analysis, debugging, and design exploration.
What does a Engineering Manager earn in California?
Median $281300 from 82 postings across 23 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
- Hire, manage, and develop a high-caliber team of software engineers.
- Lead the technical strategy for a high-throughput, low-latency ad serving platform.
- Ensure platform reliability, high availability, and operational excellence across the ad-request lifecycle.
- Drive infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and compliance controls to support business growth.
- Improve developer productivity and platform flexibility for product and ML feature integrations.
- Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, debugging, design exploration, and engineering iterations.
- Maintain high quality standards through rigorous design reviews, code reviews, and documentation.
- Mentor engineers and scale technical leadership across the organization.
What we're looking for
- Proven experience managing software engineering teams and building high-performance backend or infrastructure platforms.
- Demonstrated success in hiring, performance management, career development, and fostering inclusive team environments.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, online serving, low-latency services, or infrastructure platforms.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Go, or Python.
- Track record of meeting strict serving latency SLAs, operational targets, and optimizing cost-per-impression at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve engineering workflows with a rigorous approach to testing and validation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with ads delivery, recommendation/search serving, migrations, or observability (preferred).
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