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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.\nDiscover 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.\nAt 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.\nThrough 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.\nPinterest is seeking a Manager II, Engineering to lead our Kubernetes Platform team. The team builds and operates the infrastructure and tooling that help engineers run reliable, scalable services on Kubernetes.\nYou will lead engineers working on production systems that need to be dependable, secure, efficient, and straightforward for customers to use. You will work with partner teams across Pinterest to improve the platform, reduce operational friction, and make sound decisions when reliability, speed, cost, and security pull in different directions.\nWhat you’ll do: \nLead a team of engineers responsible for Kubernetes platform infrastructure and the systems that support it.\nEstablish the team’s 12-month strategy, roadmap, and success measures.\nImprove the reliability, security, scalability, and operational efficiency of the platform.\nDrive architecture and technical decisions, including in areas that are new to you. Build context quickly, involve the right experts, and make decisions when the team needs direction.\nBuild automation, standard configurations, and self-service paths that reduce manual work for both the team and its customers.\nSet a high bar for how the team operates production systems, including service health, observability, on-call, incident response, and safe changes.\nPartner with engineering, product, finance, security, and cloud-provider teams on shared technical and operational challenges.\nRecruit, coach, and develop engineers; empower senior technical leaders; and sustain an inclusive, accountable team.\nUse AI to accelerate analysis, investigations, documentation, and repeatable workflows while applying judgment and verification to ensure quality.\nWhat we’re looking for:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nMinimum 3 years of experience managing engineering teams in infrastructure, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, cloud systems, distributed systems, or similar technical areas.\nExperience managing and developing teams that build or operate large-scale cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, shared compute platforms, or other production systems.\nExperience setting a multi-quarter technical strategy and delivering through senior engineers.\nTechnical experience in public cloud, highly available distributed systems, Kubernetes or shared-compute platforms, and production operations.\nA strong reliability mindset and experience leading teams responsible for the operational quality of production systems.\nExperience leading cross-functional infrastructure programs and communicating reliability, security, cost, capacity, and delivery tradeoffs to partner teams.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day work.\nStrong record of evaluating AI-assisted work through testing, source checking, data validation, or peer review.\nHigh integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables. Preferred qualificationsExperience managing a Production Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similarly production-focused infrastructure team.\nExperience with managed Kubernetes services, especially Amazon EKS or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).\nExperience operating a large Kubernetes fleet or multi-tenant compute platform.\nExperience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes lifecycle management, observability, networking, or production upgrades.\nExperience with GPU or machine-learning infrastructure, capacity management, cloud cost, or resource allocation.\n\nIn-Office Requirement Statement: \nWe recognize that the ideal environment for work is situational and may differ across departments. What this looks like day-to-day can vary based on the needs of each organization or role.\nThis role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country. \nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit ourPinFlex page to learn more about our working model.\nAt Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.\nInformation regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.\nUS based applicants only\n$177,185—$364,795 USD\nOur Commitment to Inclusion:\nPinterest is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the best qualified people in every job. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member) or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you require a medical or religious accommodation during the job application process, please complete this form for support.\nBy submitting this application, I certify that all information submitted in my application and throughout the hiring process is true, accurate, and complete to the best of my knowledge. 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