Senior Software Engineer, Pinecone

• 5+ years of experience building reliable, scalable systems from design to deployment and ongoing support
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, with a focus on building production-grade systems that are maintainable and performant
• Strong programming skills, with deep knowledge of at least one core language and working familiarity with others—preferably including a lower-level or systems languages like Go, Rust, or C++
• Proven ability to work across the stack, including web and backend services, APIs, databases, and data pipelines
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate in a team setting across engineering, design, and product functions

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer with strong backend or full stack engineering experience to help scale and evolve our ingestion and retrieval stack.
• You’ll own critical services and infrastructure, collaborate across teams, and contribute to delivering highly performant, reliable systems in production, primarily written in Rust (Rust experience not required, just a willingness to learn)
• Design and build scalable infrastructure for data ingestion, processing, indexing and retrieval
• Develop distributed services and APIs that power low-latency, high-throughput systems
• Define and uphold engineering standards, ensuring high performance, security, and maintainability
• Mentor team members and support a collaborative engineering culture
• Contribute to reliability through testing, observability, and operational excellence
• Contribute to engineering culture by shaping internal standards, tools, and best practices around distributed system design, code quality, and performance tuning
• Collaborate across functions including working with product, design, and infrastructure teams to align technical direction with product needs and user experience