Sr. Manager, Code Foundations
About The Position
Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Code Foundations team within Developer Foundations. In this role you'll lead a team responsible for improving the daily development experience for every Pinterest engineer by shaping the core workflows developers rely on to write, review and ship code. The team owns critical surfaces in the developer workflow including source control, developer CLIs, developer environments and code navigation. 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.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 4+ engineers
- Experience improving developer experience with a track record of identifying and removing friction in engineering workflows
- Strong technical background building or operating developer platforms such as source control systems, developer CLIs, developer environments, build systems or CI/CD
- Experience improving developer workflows and operating developer platforms at scale in large engineering environments, including ownership of on-call, reliability improvements and service health metrics
- Ability to partner effectively with a Tech Lead to align people leadership with technical direction
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and developer tools in day-to-day engineering work, with an ability to evaluate and adopt emerging tools effectively
- Familiarity with how AI is transforming developer workflows – code generation, code review, agent-driven development and developer environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of 8+ engineers responsible for the language runtimes, codebase, and source control platform used by every Pinterest engineer, setting clear direction, execution standards and operational excellence for the platform
- Own the team's roadmap in partnership with the TL, balancing strategic initiatives with operational reliability
- Lead the agent-readiness definitions and certification for all Tier-1 repos, and establish language and monorepo standards and design enforcement
- Own the language experience portfolio, including runtimes, frameworks, libraries with an agent-first maintenance strategy
- Champion AI-native development practices across the team, including spec-to-code, agents.md curation, and agent effectiveness within large codebase best practices for the broader engineering organization
- Build a culture of developer empathy: understand the pain points of Pinterest engineers and translate them into high-impact improvements
- Establish and improve operational practices including on-call rotations, incident response and production health metrics
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure developer workflows integrate smoothly with underlying systems
- Hire and develop engineers, creating clear growth paths and a high-trust team environment
Benefits
- The position is also eligible for equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
