Engineering Manager II, Cache Infra

Posted 21 Days Ago
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2 Locations
In-Office
208K-365K Annually
Senior level
Social Media
Our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
The Role
Lead a team to build efficient caching systems at scale, modernize tech stack, maintain engineering standards, and foster a diverse culture.
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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.

The Cache Infra team manages one of Pinterest's most vital backend systems, offering huge scope and impact by serving hundreds of business-critical use cases across the entire company. Pinterest’s cache infra operates at a massive scale, managing 100+ production clusters with 450M total QPS. This role provides a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems. The team works on challenging, exciting, and impactful projects, including new cache stack, compute modernization initiatives, and innovations related to AI.
What You’ll Do:
  • Lead a high-performing team to build reliable, performant and efficient caching systems that operate at a huge scale and empower numerous business critical applications across the entire company.
  • Lead a cross-functional strategic initiative to modernize the cache infra tech stack by adopting cutting-edge technologies.
  • Maintain a high engineering standard for cache infrastructure, focusing on continuous improvement in reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
  • Drive the strategic migration of memcached from the current legacy deployment system to Kubernetes.
  • Drive the team vision and strategy for the next 3 years and beyond.
  • Help create a diverse and inclusive team culture that makes all feel welcome while encouraging critical thinking and candid feedback.

What We’re Looking For:
  • 1+ years of Experience leading or managing engineering teams, including setting direction, driving execution, and supporting team members’ growth.
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems and storage/caching systems.
  • Hands on experience building and operating highly available, reliable, production grade systems at scale.
  • Experience coding in one of the following languages: Java, Python and/or C/C++.
  • Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management.
  • Demonstrated experience leveraging AI to accelerate development, enhance operations, and improve customer support.
  • Exceptional collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, make tradeoffs, and keep stakeholders aligned on priorities and progress.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Relocation Statement
  • This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

In-Office Requirement Statement:
  • We 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.
  • This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times per quarter and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices: PA or SF offices.

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At 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.

Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.

US based applicants only
$208,454$364,795 USD

Our Commitment to Inclusion:

Pinterest 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.
 
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
0 Employees

What We Do

Pinterest is the visual inspiration platform people around the world use to shop products personalized to their taste, find ideas to do offline and discover the most inspiring creators. Today, more than 460 million people come to the platform every month to explore and experience billions of ideas that have been saved. We’re proud to help people to discover and do what they love.

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