Director of Engineering, Core & Ads Serving Platform

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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, we’re on a mission 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. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here. Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It’s where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the strategic vision and execution for Pinterest’s core and ads serving platforms, overseeing the infrastructure that enables high-scale, low-latency delivery of content and ads across all Pinterest surfaces. They will define the multi-year architecture to ensure our serving systems are reliable, performant, and cost-efficient while enabling rapid innovation for product and ML teams. What you’ll do: Set the long-term technical and operational vision for the Core and Ads Serving Platform, aligning infrastructure investments with business strategy. Lead a high-performing organization of engineers and managers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and rapid delivery. Partner with senior leaders in Product, ML, and Infra to define priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure our systems support our strategic goals for revenue, engagement, and safety. Drive initiatives to modernize our serving stack, improving reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency while enabling faster iteration for product teams. Establish clear metrics for platform success (e.g., latency, availability, cost-per-impression) and hold the organization accountable for delivering on these targets. Use AI to accelerate platform analysis, design iteration, system debugging, and documentation synthesis, enabling the organization to make better decisions faster while maintaining high standards for accuracy. What we’re looking for: 5+ years of Experience leading or managing big engineering organizations, including setting direction, driving exec...

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