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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. In your role, you’ll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You’ll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Creating a life you love also means finding a career that celebrates the unique perspectives and experiences that you bring. As you read through the expectations of the position, consider how your skills and experiences may complement the responsibilities of the role. We encourage you to think through your relevant and transferable skills from prior experiences.
Pinterest is seeking a skilled Manager for our team of Cloud Architecture experts who make a significant impact on one of the largest-scale, cloud-based infrastructures in the world. As a member of the Cloud Foundation organization, you lead in the areas of cloud architecture, infrastructure efficiency, and availability across the company.
This role is front-and-center leading cloud systems engineering at massive scale. You will forge cutting-edge innovations in partnership with leaders in cloud foundations and infrastructure to create world-class performance and stability for 500M+ Pinterest users. You are a thought leader, building new and better standards and systems for 1500+ Pinterest software engineers.
- Lead a team of highly-skilled Cloud Systems engineers to deliver team and Pillar OKRs.
- Form strong partnerships with Technical Leaders to scale the impact of your team.
- Collaborate closely with other engineering and product teams to align on shared goals and shared responsibility for delivering robust, scalable systems.
- Evangelize team charter and mission around building a scalable, fault-tolerant and efficient cloud-based system across Pinterest.
- Create a healthy team culture of clear expectations, career development, succession strategy and skills redundancy throughout the team.
- Build the team by hiring great talent and developing the leadership abilities of employees in the organization.
- Identify areas of improvement within services, automation, and secure proper resources to implement them.
- Use processes and metrics to manage operational and technical quality of the team.
- Act as part of the IMOC (Incident Management On Call) rotation for Pinterest Tech Foundations.
- Work with cross-functional partners and vendors to set team direction by translating strategy into tangible actions.
- Find and pursue opportunities across Pinterest for higher efficiency and cost effectiveness.
- Present topics around Pinterest cloud systems at conferences and industry events.
- 3+ years experience leading teams that focus on large-scale cloud architecture implementations using AWS services (EC2, EBS, R53 etc.) and IaC (Terraform, CFN etc.).
- Experience working with Cloud service providers, preferably Amazon Web Services.
- Excellent skills in communicating complex issues to an audience outside the infra domain, and championing strategies to key stakeholders.
- Bonus Points for:
- Strong networking/routing background including global routing and load balancing experience
- Experience with globally distributed data storage engines
- Experience with infrastructure performance monitoring tools and optimization practices
- Experience with modernizing legacy architectures and driving golden paths/best practices.
This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
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 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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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.
US based applicants only
$160,520—$330,146 USD
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 an accommodation during the job application process, please notify [email protected] for support.
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Pinterest's mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. It’s the biggest dataset of ideas ever assembled, with over 100 billion recipes, home hacks, style inspiration and other ideas to try. More than 250 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream about, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life.
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