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Developer Advocate

Pinecone· Marketing
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Remote$140k - $240kFull-timePosted today

About the role

Senior, hands-on technical communicator responsible for owning Pinecone's developer community, with a focus on SF/Bay Area presence. Builds developer relationships at scale, translates community needs into product feedback and compelling learning experiences, and creates tutorials, docs contributions, demos, and events.

Responsibilities

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Technical communicationCommunity program managementPublic speaking / writingEvent planning and executionProgramming languages

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
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Pinecone

The vector database to build knowledgeable AI | Pinecone

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database built for AI. Writes are instantly searchable, indexing is automatic, and queries stay fast at any scale.

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