About the position
This position involves building robust, large-scale, real-time, low-latency distributed systems for a cutting edge database, with a focus on performance, autoscaling, load-balancing, reliability, scalability, high availability, and consistency.
Responsibilities
- Developing high availability architectures for the database
- Tuning the performance of the database within large areas of ownership
- Enabling Pinecone to seamlessly run on existing cloud providers
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with Rust, C++, or Go
- 5+ years of developing, monitoring and operating large scale distributed systems
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
Nice-to-haves
- Deep experience with profiling tools (e.g., perf, valgrind, heaptrack, flamegraph, gperftools, tokio-console, pprof, etc.)
- Strong debugging skills for memory leaks, contention, and performance bottlenecks in async and multi-threaded environments
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
