Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Tools
at Pinecone, NYC
Pinecone is on a mission to build the search and database technology to power AI applications for the next decade and beyond. Our fully managed vector database makes it easy to add vector search to AI applications. Since creating the “vector database” category, demand has grown incredibly fast and it shows in our user base. We are a distributed team with clusters in New York, San Francisco, Tel-Aviv, and Manchester.
If you’re excited about:
Working on cutting-edge tech
Leading and mentoring talent
Working with people who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness
Then this is your opportunity to join an early-stage, fast-growing, and well-funded startup to shape the course of an entire industry.
About the Role:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be working on these projects:
Build and extend the core infrastructure for the Pinecone Vector Database
Own areas like the distributed API gateway, the networking services, the blue/ green deployments for database upgrades, high availability architectures
Help define SLA (service level agreement) and SLO (service level objectives) for platform services and engineer telemetry to monitor against those objectives
Use and extend our observability to improve the platform
Design multi-cloud abstractions that allow Pinecone to be available in different clouds and regions
Design and own automated build, test and release infrastructure
You will work in a fast-paced and rewarding environment that demands the highest quality work with minimal supervision. Our current tech stack includes AWS/GCP, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Go, Kafka, RocksDB and Rust
What we’re looking for:
Passion for building highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
5+ years of experience with Rust, Go or Python
5+ years of developing, monitoring and operating large scale distributed systems
Expertise in container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes
Expertise working with one of AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms
BS in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent experience
Bonus Points:
Experience with IAC automation such as Terraform, Pulumi
Experience building monitoring and alerting for production systems
Experience with Kubernetes Operator Framework
Experience with workflows / provisioning systems and control planes