Engineering Manager, Developer Agents

What you'll do:

• Define the direction of Pinterest's agent platform and build critical components such as agent serving, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Partner with and advise internal product and engineering teams on agent tech stack needs to shape the future vision for the agent platform.
• Lead the team's technical direction and roadmap for key agent infrastructure and platform investments.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers across all levels, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Use AI to accelerate team execution, system design, and decision-making, applying sound judgment to validate outputs and ensure correctness and quality.

What we're looking for:

• 1+ years of experience leading and growing engineering teams, with a strong hands-on background in Python.
• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available backend systems, including owning production-grade infrastructure at scale.
• Proficiency in designing and delivering agent platform services end-to-end, with hands-on experience across agent evaluation frameworks, prompt iteration workflows, and harness engineering.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS and containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and people management experience, including setting team vision and long-term roadmap, mentoring and growing engineers across all levels, driving day-to-day execution and engineering alignment, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver complex, high-impact platform investments.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to accelerate team execution, system design, and decision-making, paired with sound judgment in validating outputs, maintaining quality, and taking ownership of final outcomes.
• Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work.