Pinecone18 days ago

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure

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Responsibilities

  • 01Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval via query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation
  • 02Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data
  • 03Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration
  • 04Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks
  • 05Design APIs for internal and external user and agentic consumers
  • 06Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads
  • 07Drive technical direction for reliability and security

Requirements

  • 01Architectural Depth: You have a proven track record (typically 6+ years) of shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems
  • 02Data Engineering Savvy: You're comfortable building high-throughput indexing pipelines that handle both unstructured and structured data
  • 03Retrieval Intuition: You have direct experience or deep theoretical knowledge in semantic search, vector databases, hybrid retrieval strategies, or traditional search engines
  • 04RAG & Orchestration: You understand the nuances of Retrieval-Augmented Generation patterns from embedding pipelines to query planning
  • 05Language Fluency: You are an expert in at least one major language like Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python
  • 06Infrastructure: Familiarity and experience with modern infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, observability frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tools
  • 07Product Thinking: You can design clean, intuitive APIs for both human developers and autonomous agents
  • 08Ambiguity Navigator: You're comfortable in a high-growth environment and prefer owning problems over executing tickets

What we offer

  • 01Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
  • 02401(k) Plan
  • 03Equity award
  • 04Flexible time off
  • 05Paid parental leave
  • 06Annual Company Retreat
  • 07WFH Equipment Stipend