Principal Engineer: Database & Performance

If you’re excited about:

• Working on cutting-edge tech
• Leading and mentoring talent
• Working with people who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness

Then this is your opportunity to join an early-stage, fast-growing, and well-funded startup to shape the course of an entire industry.

Pinecone is pioneering Search and database technology that's revolutionizing how developers build search systems. Our managed vector database provides customers with capabilities that until now have only been in the hands of a few tech giants. The demand for Pinecone’s platform is growing incredibly fast. We have a large audience of ML engineers and data scientists who are eager to build their applications on top of our product.

About the Role

As a lead Software Engineer responsible for the storage architecture that underpins our storage optimized vector database, you will be working on areas like:

• Multi-year vision for storage optimized vector search with incremental deliverables
• Efficient storage structures for accelerating vector search at scale
• Automatic physical data layout optimizations for minimizing data movement
• Compression techniques for reducing storage and speeding up vector search 

You will work in a fast-paced and rewarding environment that demands the highest quality work with minimal supervision. And as we all do a little bit of everything, you will also be a strong generalist, work directly with customers, and mentor engineers.

What we look for: 

• A passion for databases, storage systems
• 8+ years of experience with a systems programming language like C/C++
• 5+ years of experience with designing and developing storage architectures
• BS in Computer Science, a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Strong foundations in databases and operating systems.
• Expertise working with one of AWS/GCP/Azure cloud platforms

Bonus points: 

• Experience with Rust
• Experience with LSM engines like RocksDB
• PhD in Databases, Operating Systems

Pinecone is a distributed team with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. You will be part of a world-class team from companies like Amazon, Google, Databricks, and Splunk. The company emerged from stealth in January 2021 with $10M in seed funding — led by the same legendary investor as Snowflake —  followed by $28M Series A funding announced in March 2022.