Senior Software Engineer, Database Team

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 5000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.

Join a team that builds robust, real-time distributed systems for a cutting-edge database. We care about performance, reliability, scalability, and most of all learning and having fun together. Whether you’re a seasoned coder or just getting started, if you’re passionate about technology and eager to learn, you’ll fit right in.

We show up to work, ready to collaborate and build technologies that make a difference, with people who genuinely care.

We chase improvements such as tail latencies, bytes throughput, cache hit rate, and operational cost efficiency.

We believe learning is ongoing and that even the most complex problems can have simple solutions.

Collaborate with teammates to design and build database features that power AI applications.

Learn how to tune performance and support reliability in distributed systems (don’t worry, we’ll guide you).

Help Pinecone run smoothly on popular cloud providers.

Take ownership of your work and grow your skills every day.