Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine

Pinecone
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 180,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Go","Rust","C++","Java","Python","Kubernetes","Terraform","Pulumi","OpenSearch","Elastic"]

Senior backend engineer role focusing on designing and building scalable knowledge-retrieval components for a next-generation AI knowledge infrastructure. You’ll work on semantic and hybrid search, indexing pipelines, retrieval services, API design, and performance optimization in a distributed, high-throughput environment with ownership over architecture, reliability, and security.

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Pinecone
Pinecone
5 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine

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Job Summary

Senior backend engineer role focusing on designing and building scalable knowledge-retrieval components for a next-generation AI knowledge infrastructure. You’ll work on semantic and hybrid search, indexing pipelines, retrieval services, API design, and performance optimization in a distributed, high-throughput environment with ownership over architecture, reliability, and security.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health Insurance401kEquityFlexible TimePaid ParentalAnnual RetreatWork Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems
  • •Experience with semantic search, vector databases, and hybrid retrieval
  • •Proficiency in at least one major language (Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python)
  • •Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and observability frameworks; IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi
  • •Ability to design clean, intuitive APIs and work in a high-growth environment with ownership over problems
Experience:6+ yearsAIVector databasesSemantic searchRetrievalDistributed systems
Skills:GoRustC++JavaPythonKubernetesTerraformPulumiOpenSearchElastic
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoRustC++JavaPythonKubernetesTerraformPulumiOpenSearchElastic

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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