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Pinecone

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure

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about 3 hours ago
New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$190k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval techniques.
  • Create optimized indexing pipelines for both structured and unstructured data.
  • Develop backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval and knowledge graph construction.
  • Enhance retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks.
  • Design APIs for internal and external users and agentic consumers.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, and cost for large-scale inference and retrieval workloads.
  • Drive technical direction for system reliability and security.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems.
  • Proven expertise in building high-throughput indexing pipelines for diverse data types.
  • Experience with semantic search, vector databases, and hybrid retrieval strategies.
  • Proficiency in at least one major programming language such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools like Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
  • Ability to design clean, intuitive APIs for both human developers and autonomous agents.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources.
  • 401(k) Plan.
  • Equity award.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Annual Company Retreat.
  • WFH Equipment Stipend.

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering