engineering
6 days ago*
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience Platform
at Pinecone
📍 United States·🏢 Remote
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Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- About Pinecone 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 9000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology.
- 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.
- You'll own things end-to-end — from backend architecture to API design to SDK and web surfaces.
- You're not waiting to see how the industry figures out MCP, agentic workflows, and AI-native interfaces — you're already experimenting, already forming opinions, already building.
- You know that speed and leverage matter more than labor, and you've internalized AI-assisted development not as a productivity trick but as a fundamentally different way of working.
- 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.
- 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 Bonus points for: -
- 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 -