Sr. Engineering Manager, Observability

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 Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Observability teams. The Observability teams at Pinterest are responsible for our in-house built Observability function that all of Engineering relies on for alerting, monitoring, dashboarding, and analytics storing over 2 billion metrics per minute.

What you’ll do:

• Serve as the technical and people leader for Observability teams, managing ICs and Managers.
• Innovate and improve the current solution and build new capabilities to continue supporting the business.
• Partner with XFN leaders and Product Management to define new capabilities and scale the impact of your teams. Collaborate closely with XFN/X-org partners to align on shared goals and responsibilities for delivering on foundations OKRs and org goals.
• Create a healthy 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.
• Act as part of the IMOC (Incident Management On Call) rotation for Pinterest Tech Foundations.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and efficiency of observability function while delivering on new capabilities leveraging ML/GenAI.

What we’re looking for:

• 3+ years of experience managing through other managers with staff/senior staff IC direct reports.
• Hands-on experience working with and delivering observability capabilities. Our solution is in-house but is similar in capability to industry tooling such as Cloud Trail, Data Dog, Splunk etc.
• Ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with various stakeholders outside of the Infrastructure domain. You can speak tech but can also level-up communications with non-tech audiences.
• Experience owning/operating tier-0 critical infrastructure with a geographically distributed footprint.

• Bonus points for:

  • Building and operating an in-house observability platform
  • Experience with time-series databases
  • Experience integrating ML/GenAI into Observability tooling/capabilities

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 1-2 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.

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

US based applicants only$193,960—$398,983 USD

Our Commitment to Diversity:

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