Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience

Pinecone
New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 190,000 - 270,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Autonomy","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Own Pinecone’s agent-focused developer experience end-to-end, covering API, authentication, revenue, and observability systems. Redesign and deliver platform capabilities across API, SDK, CLI, and web surfaces—from HTTP layer to UI—while designing interfaces and protocols (including MCP) for agentic workflows. Build automation, quality gates, and high-leverage tooling, and establish monitoring, alerting, and verification for reliable, auditable systems.

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Pinecone
Pinecone
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience

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Job Summary

Own Pinecone’s agent-focused developer experience end-to-end, covering API, authentication, revenue, and observability systems. Redesign and deliver platform capabilities across API, SDK, CLI, and web surfaces—from HTTP layer to UI—while designing interfaces and protocols (including MCP) for agentic workflows. Build automation, quality gates, and high-leverage tooling, and establish monitoring, alerting, and verification for reliable, auditable systems.
Location: New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design how AI agents interact with Pinecone by shaping interfaces, protocols (MCP), and tooling for agentic workflows.
  • •Ship end-to-end experiences across API, SDK, CLI, and web surfaces, owning the full stack from HTTP layer to UI.
  • •Build systems that multiply team output by creating AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates, and high-leverage platform capabilities.
  • •Set the standard for AI-assisted development by using tools like Claude Code and Cursor and establishing patterns that speed up the team.
  • •Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to identify what users and agents need, and build at the right abstraction level and time.
  • •Build observable and auditable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 270,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •At least 4 years of software engineering experience.
  • •A bias toward automation and leverage, designing systems and tooling rather than manual effort.
  • •Hands-on experience shipping with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as part of your workflow.
  • •Proven ability to design and deliver versioned APIs, SDKs, or client libraries.
  • •Proficiency building web interfaces with React (or similar) and experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Experience:4+ yearsAIDeveloper toolsSaaS
Skills:AutonomyCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:ReactAPISDKCLIHTTPMCPAWSGCPAzureClaude CodeCursorCopilotRustGoJavaMonitoringAlertingObservability

Company Brief

Pinecone
Pinecone provides a purpose-built vector database that enables scalable, high-performance similarity search and retrieval for AI applications, acting as long-term memory for LLMs and powering production search, RAG, and recommendation systems.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 500M to 1B
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2019
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