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Pinterest is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the Content Acquisition & Media Platform (CAMP) team. The CAMP team owns the critical platforms for content acquisition, media ingestion and media signal processing. The team closely collaborates with multiple partner teams bringing the most inspiration content to Pinterest to enhance the content foundation of all products, adopting LLM/VLM in a near real-time system to understand content and build fundamental signals for LLM innovations, and standing in the frontier to meet GenAI compliance requirements.
What you’ll do:
- Lead a cross-platform team responsible for content acquisition, media ingestion and media signal platform.
- Set the team’s technical direction and drive execution on quality, performance, and reliability
- Partner closely with Content, Shopping catalog and GenAI teams to improve Pinterest content ecosystem.
- Guide the team through platform and architectural decisions, balancing product needs, technical investments, and long-term maintainability.
- Build and grow a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Raise the bar on engineering excellence through strong operational practices, performance measurement, testing, and release quality.
- Help Pinterest to meet GenAI compliance requirements
- Thoughtfully leverage AI tools to speed up design, coding, debugging, and documentation, while applying your own critical thinking to validate outputs and explain how you used AI in your workflow.
- Shape our AI-assisted engineering practices by sharing patterns, guardrails, and learnings with the team so we can safely increase our impact without compromising code quality, reliability, or candidate expectations.
What we’re looking for:
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including distributed system and big data platform
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading strong client or platform engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of crawling system, media ingestion, understanding and management, big data process.
- Familiarity with search and recommendation system, GenAI compliance.
- A track record of delivering meaningful improvements to product experience, system performance, or engineering efficiency.
- Ability to lead work across platforms and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners.
- Clear communication skills, strong technical judgment, and a people-focused leadership approach.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and agentic tools as a force-multiplier, and equally comfortable solving problems from first principles when those tools aren’t available.
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 let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1 time a week and therefore needs to be in a commutable distance from one of the following offices Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seattle
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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.
Our Commitment to Inclusion:
Skills Required
- 9+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering management experience
- Deep understanding of crawling system, media ingestion, big data process
- Familiarity with search and recommendation system, GenAI compliance
- Track record of delivering improvements to product experience or engineering efficiency
- Clear communication skills and strong technical judgment
Pinterest Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pinterest and has not been reviewed or approved by Pinterest.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Compensation is considered competitive in core technical roles, with clearly defined base, bonus, and RSU components. Vesting schedules and pay elements are articulated clearly, supporting visibility into total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include substantial paid parental leave globally alongside fertility and family‑building benefits, adoption assistance, and dedicated caregiver supports. Communications also highlight a phased return‑to‑work approach.
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Flexible Benefits — PinFlex enables role‑dependent hybrid/remote work with home‑office, connectivity, and commuter support, plus the option to work internationally for a limited period with approval. Time away is reinforced by a paid company shutdown and generous vacation framing.
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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.
