The Pinecone vector database: Long-term memory for AI.
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure
Location
United States
Posted
171 days ago
Salary
$190K - $270K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure
Pinecone
• Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval via query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation • Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data • Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration • Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks • Design APIs for internal and external user and agentic consumers • Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads • Drive technical direction for reliability and security
Job Requirements
- Proven track record (typically 6+ years) of shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems
- Comfortable building high-throughput indexing pipelines that handle both the messy world of unstructured data and the rigid world of structured schemas.
- Direct experience (or deep theoretical knowledge) in semantic search, vector databases, hybrid retrieval strategies, or with traditional search engines like Elastic or OpenSearch.
- Understanding the nuances of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns, from embedding pipelines and hybrid search techniques to how query planning and metadata filtering can make or break an LLM's performance.
- Expert in at least one major language like Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
- Familiarity and experience with modern infrastructure tools, such as Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and observability frameworks, as well as infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- Comfortable in a high-growth environment.
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
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