Sr. Manager, Code Foundations

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Pinterest is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Code Foundations team within Developer this role youll 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.

What youll do:

• 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 teams 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 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

What were looking for:

• 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
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science a related field or equivalent experience

In-Office Requirement Statement:

• We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means were not always working in an office but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and 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.
  
  

Relocation Statement:

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.

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