Senior Software Engineer, Experience Platform Team

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. The Experience Platform team is seeking a full-stack/backend software engineer to build foundational product systems and enhance user experience through scalable and reliable data architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Design event-driven architectures and distributed systems for reliable real-time and batch event processing
• Develop queueing and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) with robust event handling mechanisms
• Build pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and aggregating usage data, ensuring accuracy and reliability
• Integrate with external APIs and vendor systems, designing for resiliency against outages or inconsistent data
• Create auditable and observable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms
• Implement end-to-end user experiences across multiple services and web applications

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in full-stack or backend development (NodeJS, Rust, Python, or Go)
• Experience with queueing and streaming technologies like Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub
• Familiarity with creating web interfaces with React or other frontend frameworks
• Expertise in event-driven system design and distributed systems principles
• Proficiency in building reliable data processing pipelines for usage tracking and reconciliation
• Familiarity with integrating third-party APIs and handling inconsistent data
• Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially services related to data streaming, serverless compute, and data storage
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design