Pinecone Looking for New Grad Software Engineer at New York, NY Full Time

Pinecone is on a mission to build the search and database technology to power AI applications for the next decade and beyond. Our fully managed vector database makes it easy to add vector search to AI applications. Since creating the “vector database” category, demand has grown incredibly fast and it shows in our user base.

We are a distributed team with clusters in New York, San Francisco, Tel-Aviv, and Manchester.

About The Role

This role provides an opportunity for a recent graduate to gain hands-on experience in building databases that are paving the way for new technology. You will get to work with and be mentored by an experienced group of professionals at the top of their field. As part of our Software Engineering team, you will be building robust, large-scale, real-time, low-latency distributed systems for ML infra, with a focus on autoscaling, load-balancing, reliability, scalability, high availability, and consistency. You will be working on such projects as:

• Developing high availability architectures for the database
• Enabling Pinecone to seamlessly run on existing cloud providers
• Owning automated build, test and release infrastructure

You will work in a challenging, cooperative and rewarding environment that will provide both guidance and autonomy, and gain familiarity with cutting edge technologies up and down the stack including Kubernetes, Go, Kafka, RocksDB and Rust.

What we look for:

• 1 year of experience or at least two internships/ co-op in a systems, backend or infra engineering role
• Experience or courses in modern programming languages such as Rust, Go or Python
• Courses, projects or research in ML, databases, compilers, or distributed systems
• BS/BA/BEng candidate in Computer Science or a related technical field

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)