About Pinecone

Pinecone is pioneering search and database technology that's revolutionizing how developers build search systems. Our managed vector database provides customers with easy-to-use capabilities that until now have only been in the hands of a few tech giants. The demand for vector databases is growing incredibly fast, and it shows in our user base. We have a large audience of ML engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and technical architects who are eager to learn and build with 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