Pinecone
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience
US Remote · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 119 days ago
JavaGoRustReactVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureAPI DevelopmentAgentic AICommunication
About the role
- About Pinecone Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale.
- About the Team and Role: The Experience team is at the center of one of the most exciting transitions in software development history - the shift from human-driven to agent-driven product experiences.
Responsibilities
- Pioneer our agent experience. Shape how AI agents interact with Pinecone - designing interfaces, protocols (MCP), and tooling that make Pinecone the easiest and most capable platform for agentic workflows to build on.
- Ship end-to-end experiences across API, SDK, CLI, and web. You'll own the full surface, from the HTTP layer to the UI, and you'll make calls across all of it.
- Build systems that multiply team output.
- Design AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates, and high-leverage platform capabilities that let a small team move at a pace that would otherwise require 10x the headcount.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to identify what users (and agents) actually need and build it at the right abstraction level, at the right time.
- Build observable, auditable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms - because in a high-velocity environment, you need systems that tell you when something's wrong.
Requirements
- We care more about how you think and how you work than whether your resume checks every box.
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency building web interfaces with React or similar
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Nice to have
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks and the emerging patterns around tool use, orchestration, and agent-to-agent communication
- Strong familiarity with a compiled language like Rust, Go, or Java
- Experience with large-scale open-source projects
Skills
- About Pinecone
- Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale.
- Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable.
- Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.
Compensation
- Annual Company Retreat
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- WFH Equipment Stipend
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone.
Company info
- The Experience team is at the center of one of the most exciting transitions in software development history - the shift from human-driven to agent-driven product experiences.
- We own Pinecone's API, clients, authentication, revenue, and observability systems, and right now that means redesigning all of it for a world where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans.
- This is a wide-scope role.
- You'll own things end-to-end - from backend architecture to API design to SDK and web surfaces.
- You'll be working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to identify user needs and build the right thing, at the right abstraction level, at the right time.
- Along the way, you will be building high-leverage platform capabilities that accelerate Pinecone's product development and user growth systems.
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