高级/资深软件工程师，体验
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience
关于 Pinecone
Pinecone 是值得信赖的 AI 知识公司。其值得信赖的 AI 知识平台——包括其数据库、Nexus 和 Marketplace 产品——为全球超过 10,000 家客户和 100 万开发者提供准确、快速且成本效益高的 AI 应用。Pinecone 的使命是让 AI 更加知识化。更多信息，请访问 pinecone.io http://pinecone.io。
关于团队和职位：
Experience 团队正处于软件开发历史上最激动人心的转变之中——从以人类为中心的产品体验转向以 AI 代理为中心的体验。我们负责 Pinecone 的 API、客户端、认证、收入和可观测性系统，目前这意味着要为一个 AI 代理与人类并列作为主要用户的环境重新设计所有内容。
这是一个范围广泛的角色。你将从后端架构到 API 设计，再到 SDK 和网页界面，全程负责各项事务。你将与产品、设计和其他工程团队紧密合作，识别用户需求，并在合适的抽象层级和时间点构建正确的东西。在此过程中，你将构建高杠杆的平台能力，加速 Pinecone 的产品开发和用户增长系统。
我们正在寻找一位工程师，能够认识到这个时刻的重要性：一个罕见的机会，可以塑造开发者和代理如何与定义品类的产品互动。你不会等待行业去解决 MCP、代理工作流和 AI 原生接口的问题——你已经在进行实验，形成观点，开始构建。你知道速度和杠杆比劳动更重要，并且已经将 AI 辅助开发内化为一种根本不同的工作方式。
职责：
- 开创我们的代理体验。塑造 AI 代理与 Pinecone 的交互方式——设计接口、协议（MCP）和工具，使 Pinecone 成为代理工作流最容易使用且功能最强大的平台。
- 在 API、SDK、CLI 和网页上交付端到端的体验。你将全程负责整个界面，从 HTTP 层到 UI，并对其中的所有部分做出决策。
- 构建能提升团队产出的系统。我们关注的是交付成果，而不是投入了多少小时。设计 AI 驱动的工作流、自动化质量门禁以及高杠杆的平台能力，让一个小团队也能以原本需要 10 倍人手才能达到的速度前进。
- 为团队设定 AI 辅助开发的标准。
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About Pinecone
Pinecone is the trusted AI knowledge company. Its trusted AI knowledge platform—including its Database, Nexus, and Marketplace products—power accurate, fast, and cost-effective AI applications for more than 10,000 customers and 1M developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. For more information, visit pinecone.io http://pinecone.io.
About the Team and Role:
The Experience team is at the center of one of the most exciting transitions in software development history — the shift from human-driven to agent-driven product experiences. We own Pinecone's API, clients, authentication, revenue, and observability systems, and right now that means redesigning all of it for a world where AI agents are first-class users alongside humans.
This is a wide-scope role. You'll own things end-to-end — from backend architecture to API design to SDK and web surfaces. You’ll be working closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to identify user needs and build the right thing, at the right abstraction level, at the right time. Along the way, you will be building high-leverage platform capabilities that accelerate Pinecone’s product development and user growth systems.
We're looking for an engineer who sees this moment for what it is: a rare opportunity to shape how developers and agents interact with a category-defining product. You're not waiting to see how the industry figures out MCP, agentic workflows, and AI-native interfaces — you're already experimenting, already forming opinions, already building. You know that speed and leverage matter more than labor, and you've internalized AI-assisted development not as a productivity trick but as a fundamentally different way of working.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Requirements:
Senior and Staff Engineers at Pinecone operate with high autonomy. You'll be an active partner in setting strategy on APIs, agent interfaces, observability, and developer experience — not just executing on a roadmap. We care more about how you think and how you work than whether your resume checks every box.
You should have:
- 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
Bonus points for:
- 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
Perks & Benefits:
- 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
All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.