Application Security Engineer, Glean
$185-260k
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
Be an early applicant
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$185-260k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To expand human potential to do extraordinary work.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will drive the adoption of solutions like Google’s Assured Open Source Software (OSS) and explore alternative approaches to enhance software security
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience)
- 8+ years of experience in application security and vulnerability management
- Deep understanding of software security vulnerabilities, including CVEs, OWASP Top 10, and supply chain risks
- Experience with SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and vulnerability management tools (e.g., Snyk, GitHub Dependabot, Trivy, Clair, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP)
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native security across AWS, GCP, including containers, Kubernetes, and microservices
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive security adoption across engineering teams
- Proactive, pragmatic, and collaborative, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to balance security with performance and usability
What the job involves
- Glean is looking for an experienced Application Security Engineer with a primary focus on ensuring that our entire technology stack is free of software vulnerabilities (CVEs). This role is responsible for securing our base OS images, ensuring all open-source software (OSS) dependencies are scanned and patched, and integrating cutting-edge security tools into our CI/CD pipeline
- This role will lead the vulnerability management charter at Glean, identifying, evaluating, and implementing new security technologies and processes to proactively protect our infrastructure
- Own the vulnerability management lifecycle across Glean’s technology stack, from discovery and prioritization through remediation, reporting, and measurement
- Harden base OS images and secure open-source dependencies, package managers, and the broader software supply chain
- Integrate SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and automated security validation into CI/CD pipelines
- Evaluate, adopt, and develop security solutions and tooling, including Google’s Assured OSS and comparable approaches
- Define secure-coding practices and drive engineering adoption through guidance, training, and mentorship
Our take
Glean is an intuitive digital assistant which allows employees to search across all their apps and find the information and tools that they need more quickly.
With so many SaaS apps being used by modern day companies, overwhelm and inefficiency inevitably enter the equation. Glean’s search engine is proving popular for how it unifies and centralizes all these distributed tools and data.
It’s been quite a start to life at Glean, having emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1B valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status. Since then, the company has gone on to raise substantial funding and bring its valuation up to $7.2B in 2025. With this impressive growth, its secured some big name customers like Grammarly, databricks, and Rubrik.
That Glean was co-founded by a quartet with senior experience at Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Facebook stands the company in good stead. However, it’s the fact that its search engine is solving a new, but very real problem in the workplace that’s seen its popularity surge so quickly, which it’s likely to continue to do in the future. And its adaptability to include new AI capabilities to its platform, such as generative AI, has Glean well set to see further growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2025
$150m
SERIES F
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Total funding: $805m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Arvind is also the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
TR Vishwanath
(Co-Founder & CTO)Before co-founding Glean, TR was a Principal Software Engineer at Facebook after spending eight years at Microsoft as a Software Design Engineer, then Principal Development Lead.
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