Description
We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Code Foundations team within Developer Foundations. As a Sr. Manager, Code Foundations, you will be 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. You will 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.
In this role, you will own the team's roadmap in partnership with the TL, balancing strategic initiatives with operational reliability. You will lead the agent-readiness definitions and certification for all Tier-1 repos, and establish language and monorepo standards and design enforcement.
You will also own the language experience portfolio, including runtimes, frameworks, libraries with an agent-first maintenance strategy. You will 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.
As a Sr. Manager, Code Foundations, you will build a culture of developer empathy: understand the pain points of Pinterest engineers and translate them into high-impact improvements. You will establish and improve operational practices including on-call rotations, incident response and production health metrics.
You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure developer workflows integrate smoothly with underlying systems. You will hire and develop engineers, creating clear growth paths and a high-trust team environment.
We're looking for someone with 7+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 4+ engineers. You should have 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 is required. 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 is also necessary.
You should be able 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 is required.
Familiarity with how AI is transforming developer workflows – code generation, code review, agent-driven development and developer environments is also necessary. Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical strategy to both engineers and senior leadership is required.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent experience is necessary.