Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Pinecone
Database Team
$160-220k
+ Equity award
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
Open for applications
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-220k
+ Equity award
101-200 employees
Company mission
Pinecone's mission it to make AI knowledgeable.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience - programming in Rust, Go, C++, or a comparable language
- You’re genuinely curious about distributed systems and eager to dive deep into technical challenges
- You approach problems with creativity and persistence, and you’re comfortable asking thoughtful questions or seeking feedback
- You’re excited to learn, value constructive feedback, and appreciate mentorship
Desirable
- You have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) or have demonstrated an ability to pick up new tools quickly
- You’re comfortable thinking in async or multi-threaded environments, or can show you’re ready to learn
- You’ve explored performance tools or have a track record of optimizing code for speed, reliability, or efficiency
What the job involves
- Join a team that builds robust, real-time distributed systems for a cutting-edge database
- We care about performance, reliability, scalability, and most of all learning and having fun together
- Whether you’re a seasoned coder or just getting started, if you’re passionate about technology and eager to learn, you’ll fit right in
- We show up to work, ready to collaborate and build technologies that make a difference, with people who genuinely care
- We chase improvements such as tail latencies, bytes throughput, cache hit rate, and operational cost efficiency
- We believe learning is ongoing and that even the most complex problems can have simple solutions
- Collaborate with teammates to design and build database features that power AI applications
- Learn how to tune performance and support reliability in distributed systems (don’t worry, we’ll guide you)
- Help Pinecone run smoothly on popular cloud providers
- Take ownership of your work and grow your skills every day
- Have fun
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 has continued to build out its platform to meet the growing demands of enterprise-scale AI workloads. And most recently, the company introduced Dedicated Read Nodes (DRNs), a high-performance deployment option designed for latency-sensitive, high-throughput use cases such as billion-vector semantic search, real-time recommendation systems, and user-facing AI assistants. By offering isolated, provisioned capacity with predictable performance and costs, DRNs address a key challenge for production AI systems that require consistent low latency under heavy load.
Alongside this, Pinecone has strengthened its partnership with Microsoft, leveraging Azure's global infrastructure, security, and go-to-market ecosystem to support large-scale, production-grade AI applications. These developments signal a shift from early experimentation toward mature, mission-critical deployments, positioning Pinecones as a core piece of enterprise AI infrastructure rather than just an emerging vector database provider.
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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
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental and vision plans, paid parental leave, and mental health resources offer holistic well-being coverage for you and your family.
- Compensation and Financial Benefits: Pinecone offers competitive base salary and equity compensation, opportunity to build a savings and investment portfolio, and resources to protect your family from the unexpected.
- Other Benefits: Pinecone is a hybrid in-office/remote workforce that offers Flexible PTO and WFH Equipment Stipend. Employees also enjoy attending our annual company retreat and occasional team offsites.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(Founder & Chief Scientist)Edo was previously a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. Before that, he worked in Research at Amazon SageMaker/AI Labs and at Yahoo! as a Research Scientist and Director.
Ash Ashutosh
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinecone in 2025, Ash worked at Google in Products and as a Global Director of Solution Sales. He also previously founded Actifio where he served as the CEO and President for over 11 years.
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