Pinecone Benefits Overview

As a Software Engineer on the Database Team at Pinecone, you'll design and build features for AI applications, enhance performance, and support distributed systems with a focus on learning and collaboration.

Design and build scalable search and retrieval infrastructure: indexing pipelines, backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, retrieval orchestration, APIs, and observability to optimize latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and security for large-scale LLM-powered systems.

Lead design and delivery of end-to-end developer and agent experiences across API, SDK, CLI, and web. Pioneer agent interfaces and MCP protocols, build high-leverage platform tooling, and establish AI-assisted development and observability for production systems.