pinecone - Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience Platform
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Requirements
• Senior Engineers at Pinecone operate with high autonomy. You'll be an active partner in setting strategy on APIs, agent interfaces, observability, and developer experience — not just executing on a roadmap. 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 • A bias toward automation and leverage — you reach for systems and tooling before you reach for elbow grease • Hands-on experience shipping with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a genuine part of your workflow • Proven ability to design and deliver versioned APIs, SDKs, or client libraries • Proficiency building web interfaces with React or similar • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) • Strong intuition for what makes APIs easy for both humans and agents to use correctly • Experience building or consuming MCP servers, or designing APIs explicitly for agent use cases • 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 • Experience developing database or query engine SDKs
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. We care about what ships, not how many hours went into it. 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. • Set the standard for AI-assisted development on the team. Use the best tools available — Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever works — and help establish patterns that make the whole team faster. • 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.
Benefits
• $190K – $230K • Offers Equity • Autofill from resume • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • This job has application limits • Please Note: we have set up limits for applications for this role. It is in the General group. The following limits apply to applications for all jobs within this group: • Candidates may not apply more than 2 times in any 60 day span for any job in the General Group. • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 365 days if not presented with an offer • Candidates may not re-apply to any role within the General group within 365 days if not presented with an offer • Pinecone Application • Preferred Pronouns • did not provide • Linkedin Profile • Please attach LinkedIn URL • or drag and drop here • Will you now, or in the future, require sponsorship (i.e. H-1B visa, etc.) to legally work in the U.S.? If so, are you currently in a period of Optional Practical Training (OPT/CPT)? • Pinecone does support visa / immigration needs for perspective candidates • Yes (I have OPT / CPT) • Are you currently engage in any side businesses, hold board positions, serve in nonprofit roles, maintain academic commitments, or have any other obligations that you anticipate continuing while employed with us? If yes, please provide details. • U.S. Standard Demographic Questions • We invite applicants to share their demographic background. If you choose to complete this survey, your responses may be used to identify areas of improvement in our hiring process. • Are you a veteran or active member of the United States Armed Forces? • I don't wish to answer • I prefer to self-describe • No, I am not a veteran or active member • Yes, I am a veteran or active member • Do you have a disability or chronic condition (physical, visual, auditory, cognitive, mental, emotional, or other) that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities, including mobility, communication (seeing, hearing, speaking), and learning? • Do you identify as transgender? • How would you describe your sexual orientation? (mark all that apply) • Bisexual and/or pansexual • How would you describe your racial/ethnic background? (mark all that apply) • White or European • Southeast Asian • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander • Middle Eastern or North African • Indigenous, American Indian or Alaska Native • Hispanic, Latinx or of Spanish Origin • Black or of African descent • How would you describe your gender identity? (mark all that apply) • U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY INFORMATION (Completion is voluntary and will not subject you to adverse treatment)
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