4 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with teammates to design and build database features that power AI applications.
- Tune performance and support reliability in real-time distributed systems.
- Help Pinecone run smoothly on popular cloud providers.
- Optimize tail latency, throughput, cache hit rate, and operational cost efficiency.
- Take ownership of work while collaborating, learning, and incorporating feedback.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of work experience programming in Rust, Go, C++, or a comparable language.
- Genuine curiosity about distributed systems and willingness to tackle complex technical challenges.
- Creativity, persistence, thoughtful communication, and comfort seeking feedback.
- Willingness to learn and appreciation for constructive feedback and mentorship.
- Preferred: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred: familiarity with asynchronous or multithreaded environments.
- Preferred: experience with performance tools or optimizing code for speed, reliability, or efficiency.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage.
- 401(k) plan and equity award.
- Flexible time off and paid parental leave.
- Annual company retreat.
- WFH equipment stipend.
About Pinecone
Pinecone builds a managed vector database and knowledge engine used by developers and ML teams to power search, retrieval, and other AI application features. It sells a cloud service with APIs and tooling for production-scale similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company serves enterprises and startups building generative AI and search experiences.