Senior Software Engineer, Pinecone
Experience Platform Team
$175-210k
Offers equity
Vector database
Open for applications
Vector database
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-210k
Offers equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the search and database technology to power AI/ML applications for the next decade and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience in full-stack or backend development (NodeJS, Rust, Python, or Go)
- Experience with queueing and streaming technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub
- Familiarity with creating web interfaces with React or other frontend frameworks
- Expertise in event-driven system design and distributed systems principles
- Proficiency in building reliable data processing pipelines for usage tracking and reconciliation
- Familiarity with integrating third-party APIs and handling inconsistent data
- Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially services related to data streaming, serverless compute, and data storage
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design
- We need someone who isn’t satisfied until their work has had a measurable impact on our users and who’s willing to reach across the stack to find opportunities for innovation
- 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
What the job involves
- The Experience Platform team is looking for a full-stack/backend software engineer who’s excited to build foundational product systems that will scale with Pinecone’s rapid growth
- You will have a wide scope of responsibility and ownership over delivering an exceptional user experience, from data and server architecture to API design and UI development
- For this role, we’re looking for someone who can dive into our metering and data pipelines to increase scalability, reliability, and performance
- As a new team at Pinecone, we have a strong mandate to deliver a world-class product experience for our users across a wide range of domains, including authentication, observability, usage metering, and growth initiatives
- Our mission is to accelerate product development and user acquisition through high-leverage platform capabilities
- The team is small and authors primarily in Typescript and Rust
- We work very closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to identify user needs and build the right thing, at the right abstraction level, at the right time
- Design event-driven architectures and distributed systems for reliable real-time and batch event processing
- Develop queueing and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) with robust event handling mechanisms
- Build pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and aggregating usage data, ensuring accuracy and reliability
- Integrate with external APIs and vendor systems, designing for resiliency against outages or inconsistent data
- Create auditable and observable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms
- Implement end-to-end user experiences across multiple services and web applications
Our take
Vector databases arrived on the scene only a few years ago, but the technology has already helped power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Vector databases quickly became popular in the world of machine learning and AI and they will continue to play a significant role in the future development of AI technologies.
Pinecone is a vector database company that specializes in providing an efficient and scalable solution for high-performance vector search applications. The platform is designed to allow businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage machine learning applications without the hassle of infrastructures.
Pinecone is providing customers around the globe with capabilities that have, up until recently, only been utilized by tech giants. Due to the increasing demand for efficient and scalable vector database solutions, Pinecone's 2024 "breakthrough" release is set for a promising future. It claims its release will lead to 50x cost reductions for companies, that will be able to bring state-of-the-art AI to the market at a faster rate. With the company creating a buzz for itself in 2023 off the back of significant funding and with various high profile partnerships (Robust Intelligence and Gathr) announced the following year, here's to hoping it can fulfil the expectations placed upon it.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
96% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$28m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, dental & vision plans
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health resources
- Commuter benefits
- FSA & HSA
- Flexible work hours
- Hybrid in-office/remote
- Annual team retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(CEO)Previously worked at Yahoo and Amazon Web Services in Senior Research roles.
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