Manager II, Production Engineering

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Compensation

$164,695 - $339,078/year

San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US

Hybrid

Posted April 2, 2026

Job Description

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.

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. Our organization accomplishes this through building & integrating software, increasing automation, and infusing our knowledge & best practices into our Platform products so we can scale our large distributed systems to keep our customers happy, and our Pinners inspired. We also do this by developing short and long term embedded engagements with our engineering partners to help remove barriers, up-level reliability & best practices, and maintain a high consistent bar for reliability in a fast paced ever changing environment. We are always on a mission to improve reliability while also 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’re infusing best practices into our products relating to reliability, scalability, performance and efficiency
Drive technical architecture discussions; including being capable of driving and decision making for technology or applications that you have not had previous experience 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
Use AI to accelerate analysis, iteration, experimentation and time to market while applying judgment and verification to ensure correctness and quality
Foster an environment of open and honest communication, allowing team members to be safe to fail, encourage risk taking with a fail-fast mentality, and establish forums where they can share their ideas
Empower engineers to develop their careers, matching their strengths with projects tailored to their skill levels, 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 partners across infrastructure by communicating a clear and impactful 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: Demonstrated ability to work cohesively and build relationships with partners across engineering disciplines and capable of influencing without authority
Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
High integrity and ownership: you protect se

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