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title: 'Developer Advocate at Pinecone'
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# Developer Advocate at Pinecone

- **Company:** Pinecone
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pinecone/4433b308-1ff4-4b5f-9184-810e5d9844f6

## Job description

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: We’re hiring a Developer Advocate to own the Pinecone community—online and in-person—with a particular focus on building a strong SF/Bay Area presence. This role is for a senior, hands-on technical communicator who can build developer relationships at scale, run high-signal programs, and translate community needs into product feedback and compelling learning experiences. To succeed in this role, you must be able to build and teach with Pinecone’s AI products—showing developers how to create reliable, scalable AI applications where knowledge and retrieval are central. You’ll translate best practices into practical learning experiences through tutorials, short-form videos, docs contributions, hackathon mentorship, and social posts. Because the team and customer base are scaling quickly, you should be comfortable operating with high autonomy and strong judgment in a fast-paced environment. If you’re excited about:

- Learning new technologies and helping others succeed with that technology.
- Playing a central role in an exciting and rapidly expanding community.
- Shaping the course of a fast-growing company and product category.
- Working with colleagues who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness.

Then we want to talk to you!

Responsibilities: Community Programs (Global)

- Lead and grow Pinecone’s Discord: drive engagement, improve onboarding, set norms, and keep the space high-signal.
- Run recurring office hours that consistently help developers unblock, learn best practices, and ship.
- Support and scale community programs that create real builder outcomes (templates, challenge weeks, help channels, expert AMAs).

Events (SF/Bay Area)

- Own Pinecone’s SF-area community presence: local meetups, hackathons, and larger Bay Area events.
- Develop event programming (themes, speaker selection, talks/workshops), run promotion and attendance growth, and ensure each event produces reusable assets and follow-on engagement.

Technical content + assets

- Create and maintain hands-on technical assets (sample apps, demos, code walkthroughs) aligned to Pinecone’s core developer use cases:
- RAG systems and retrieval quality
- Knowledge management patterns using Assistant and other incubating products
- Platform/infra patterns for scale and reliability
- Publish content across Pinecone channels and external platforms, grounded in what the community is actually trying to build.

Requirements:

- 2+ years of experience in a technical role such as software engineering, solution engineering, or machine learning.
- Proficient in 2+ programming languages.
- Owned and grown a technical developer community.
- Ran in person developer events end to end.
- Shipped demos and sample code and taught them clearly.
- Strong writing and live speaking and Q&A.
- Fluent in LLM apps and RAG and strong API instincts.

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.

## About Pinecone

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale, providing the leading vector database and knowledge engine for building accurate, performant AI applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, Wing Venture Capital)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, NY, USA (with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Edo Liberty

## Core Business

- **Primary industry/industries**: Vector database / AI infrastructure / Knowledge management
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, engineering teams of all sizes, enterprise customers building AI applications (search, recommendation, agents, RAG)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make AI knowledgeable."

## Products & Services

- **Pinecone Vector Database**: Fully managed, serverless vector database optimized for low-latency similarity search at billion-scale with automatic scaling, built-in freshness, and a cloud-native architecture.
- **Pinecone Nexus**: Knowledge engine that combines cutting-edge models (embedding, planning, reranking) with flexible query mechanisms (vector, keyword, filtering) for end-to-end retrieval.
- **Pinecone Assistant**: A conversational interface built on the vector database for question-answering over custom data.
- **Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes**: Isolated read replicas for high-throughput workloads with strict SLAs.
- **Pinecone BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)**: Deployment option that runs within a customer’s own cloud environment for compliance and security requirements.

## Market Standing

- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Serves more than **10,000 customers** and **1 million developers** worldwide (source: company page).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, Wing Venture Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapidly expanding product suite (Nexus, Assistant, MCP Server), hybrid workforce scaling, continuous hiring in engineering and product roles, and growing adoption among enterprises building AI agents.

## Competitive Advantages

- **Proprietary Rust-based implementations** of state-of-the-art algorithms delivering industry-leading performance and low latency.
- **Cloud-native architecture** that separates storage from compute and reads from writes, enabling hands-free scaling to billions of vectors and thousands of queries per second.
- **Fully managed serverless experience** – no capacity planning or infrastructure tuning needed; built-in freshness for dynamic workloads.
- **Best-in-class developer experience** with intuitive APIs, SDKs, extensive documentation, and deep ecosystem integrations (e.g., MCP servers, LangChain, LlamaIndex).
- **Cost-effective retrieval** via object-storage-based data tiering and multi-tenant resource packing.

## Strategic Focus

- Deepening the "knowledge infrastructure" platform to power the next generation of **AI agents** and intelligent applications.
- Advancing retrieval quality with sparse-dense embeddings, reranking, and multimodal capabilities.
- Scaling enterprise readiness with BYOC, advanced security features, and compliance certifications.
- Expanding developer community and ecosystem integrations to maintain leadership in the vector database category.

## Why Work Here

- **Work model**: Hybrid in-office/remote with hubs in New York City and Tel Aviv; remote-friendly roles available for many engineering positions.
- **Culture & values**: "Be yourself, Be a friend, Be a pro" – emphasis on authenticity, trust, collaboration, and ownership.
- **Team**: Work with world-class scientists and engineers who previously built large-scale ML and distributed systems at AWS, Databricks, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
- **Benefits**: Competitive base salary + equity, flexible PTO, WFH equipment stipend, annual company retreat and team offsites, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, paid parental leave, mental health resources.
- **Growth**: Early-stage enough to have outsized impact but with strong product-market fit and massive adoption; opportunity to shape the future of AI infrastructure.

## Sources

1. [pinecone.io - Company](https://www.pinecone.io/company/)
2. [pinecone.io - Careers](https://www.pinecone.io/careers/)
3. [pinecone.io - Product](https://www.pinecone.io/)
4. [LinkedIn - Pinecone](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pinecone-io)

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