Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure

What this role involves

Pinecone is hiring a Senior/Staff Software Engineer for Search & Retrieval Infrastructure. The role involves designing and building core components of a knowledge retrieval system for AI, focusing on backend architecture, distributed systems, and applied AI infrastructure. Responsibilities include building scalable platform components, indexing pipelines, and backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, with a preference for experience in Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• rust
• c++
• java
• python
• kubernetes
• terraform
• pulumi
• elastic
• opensearch
• vector database
• semantic search
• hybrid retrieval
• rag
• query planning
• metadata filtering
• indexing pipelines
• observability
• infrastructure as code
• cloud native
• multi-tenant saas
• retrieval evaluation

Requirements

• 6 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. Pine…