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Sr. Manager, Code Foundations

Pinterest
San Francisco, CA, US; Remote, US
Jun 4, 2026
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Job Description

About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

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.

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.

What you'll 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 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 an