Latest Backend Engineering jobs at Pinecone

Builds large-scale backend infrastructure for semantic, hybrid, and agentic knowledge retrieval. The role requires deep distributed-systems experience, strong proficiency in a major programming language, and familiarity with vector databases, RAG, cloud-native infrastructure, and high-throughput indexing.

Build scalable search and retrieval infrastructure for Pinecone's vector database and knowledge engine, focusing on semantic/hybrid search, indexing pipelines, RAG patterns, and LLM-powered agentic systems. Requires 6+ years building large-scale, low-latency backend systems with strong distributed systems and AI retrieval expertise.

Build and optimize distributed database features for AI applications in Rust, Go, or C++. Focus on performance, reliability, and scalability in a hybrid New York City role.