Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine — Remote

Pinecone; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) Plan

Equity award

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Annual Company Retreat

WFH Equipment Stipend

Job summary

A leading technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and build core components of next-generation knowledge retrieval systems. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in shipping production-grade backends, a passion for data-to-knowledge transformation, and expertise in backend system architecture, distributed systems, semantic search, and API design. The role offers competitive benefits including health coverage, 401(k), and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• Experience with production-grade backends for large-scale systems.
• Comfortable with indexing pipelines for unstructured and structured data.
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools and observability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval.
• Build backend services for knowledge graph construction and retrieval.
• Drive technical direction for reliability and security.

Skills

Backend system architecture

Distributed systems

Semantic search

Data engineering

API design

Infrastructure tools

Education

6+ years in software engineering

Tools

Go

Rust

Python

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

A leading technology company in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design and build core components of next-generation knowledge retrieval systems. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in shipping production-grade backends, a passion for data-to-knowledge transformation, and expertise in backend system architecture, distributed systems, semantic search, and API design. The role offers competitive benefits including health coverage, 401(k), and flexible time off.