Manager II, Cloud Architecture

About Pinterest:

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.

Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that’s uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex *landing page to learn more. *

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.

What you’ll do:

• 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.

What we’re looking for:

• 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 Ontario.

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