Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Experience

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Pioneer the agent experience: design interfaces, protocols (MCP) and tooling for agentic workflows
• ▹Ship end-to-end experiences across API, SDK, CLI and web
• ▹Build systems that multiply team output: AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates
• ▹Set the standard for AI-assisted development on the team (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)
• ▹Collaborate with product, design and engineering to identify user and agent needs
• ▹Build observable, auditable systems with monitoring, alerting and verification

Requirements

• ▹At least 4 years of software engineering experience
• ▹A bias toward automation and leverage
• ▹Hands-on experience shipping with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar)
• ▹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

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building or consuming MCP servers, or designing APIs for agent use cases
• ▹Familiarity with agentic frameworks and tool-use/orchestration patterns
• ▹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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, mental health)
• ▹401(k) Plan
• ▹Equity award
• ▹Flexible time off
• ▹Paid parental leave
• ▹Annual Company Retreat
• ▹WFH Equipment Stipend

About the company

Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale; its leading vector database, Pinecone Nexus, powers AI applications for 9,000+ customers and 800,000+ developers, based in New York.