Staff Software Engineer - Database Team

About Pinecone

Pinecone is on a mission to build the search and database technology to power AI applications for the next decade and beyond. Our fully managed vector database makes it easy to add vector search to AI applications. Since creating the “vector database” category, demand has grown incredibly fast, and it shows in our user base. We provide customers with capabilities that until now have only been in the hands of a few tech giants.

We are a distributed team with clusters in New York and Tel Aviv. Our R&D team includes founders of multiple startups and world-class engineers including the core team that created Amazon SageMaker. We value integrity, passion, pushing boundaries, real-world problem solving, and a sense of humor. We work in collaboration, and encourage new ideas and initiatives.

About The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Pinecone Database team, you will be building Pinecone’s core offering - our vector database. You will take part in the entire development cycle - designing database components, implementing them, and running them in production. Your role will focus on designing and building the cloud infrastructure and services which will allow Pinecone to scale to Enterprise customers (for example - BYOC deployments). You will be building a highly complex distributed system that runs on multiple cloud providers, where high performance and large scale matter the most. As we all have a high sense of ownership, you will also be a generalist, work directly with customers, with product managers, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

• A passion for technology & AI
• 8+ years of experience with designing and developing cloud-based distributed systems
• Experience designing and building cloud infrastructure architectures
• Expertise working with one of AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms
• Experience operating production systems at scale
• Strong experience with a systems programming language like C/C++/Rust.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience with Rust programming
• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, in a related technical field

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications in a job description. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications listed in this posting.