Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience

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• Pioneer our agent experience. Shape how AI agents interact with Pinecone — designing interfaces, protocols (MCP), and tooling that make Pinecone the easiest and most capable platform for agentic workflows to build on.
• Ship end-to-end experiences across API, SDK, CLI, and web. You'll own the full surface, from the HTTP layer to the UI, and you'll make calls across all of it.
• Build systems that multiply team output. We care about what ships, not how many hours went into it. Design AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates, and high-leverage platform capabilities that let a small team move at a pace that would otherwise require 10x the headcount.
• Set the standard for AI-assisted development on the team. Use the best tools available — Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever works — and help establish patterns that make the whole team faster.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to identify what users (and agents) actually need and build it at the right abstraction level, at the right time.
• Build observable, auditable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms — because in a high-velocity environment, you need systems that tell you when something's wrong.
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience
• A bias toward automation and leverage — you reach for systems and tooling before you reach for elbow grease
• Hands-on experience shipping with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a genuine part of your workflow
• Proven ability to design and deliver versioned APIs, SDKs, or client libraries
• Proficiency building web interfaces with React or similar
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong intuition for what makes APIs easy for both humans and agents to use correctly
• Experience building or consuming MCP servers, or designing APIs explicitly for agent use cases
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks and the emerging patterns around tool use, orchestration, and agent-to-agent communication
• Strong familiarity with a compiled language like Rust, Go, or Java
• Experience with large-scale open-source projects
• Experience developing database or query engine SDKs
• Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
• 401(k) Plan
• Equity award
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• Annual Company Retreat
• WFH Equipment Stipend