Software Engineer, Glean
Developer Platform
$140-265k
3-4 days a week in office
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Be an early applicant
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-265k
3-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building and shipping backend or platform systems with a strong interest in developer experience – SDKs, tools, integrations, and APIs – not just a single product surface
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (ideally Golang, or strong interest in learning it); experience with TypeScript, Python and/or Java is a plus
- Experience with at least some of the following (and excited to grow into the rest):
- Designing or maintaining SDKs or client libraries
- Building agent or integration tooling (IDEs, agents, workflows, plugins)
- Working with REST APIs and schema‑based definitions like OpenAPI
- Designing or integrating OAuth2/OIDC and related auth flows
- A developer‑centric mindset: you care about ergonomics (APIs, SDKs, tooling, and docs) that make other engineers more productive and confident
- Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment and are comfortable collaborating with product teams, security, SRE, and customer‑facing teams to solve ambiguous problems
- A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small infrastructure improvements and larger cross‑team initiatives
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking creative engineers to build the Developer Platform that external and internal developers rely on to extend Glean
- Our team owns the developer experience end‑to‑end: standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs and client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on Glean
- In a rapidly growing startup, this means working across multiple layers of the stack – backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and docs – and partnering closely with product, security, SRE, and other engineering teams
- You’ll spend most of your time in Go, Python and TypeScript building the foundations that power integrations, agents, and custom applications, while also helping define what “great” looks like for APIs and developer experience across Glean
- Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks
- Own and advance agent‑focused tooling and SDKs (including MCP and related integrations) so external frameworks, IDEs, and agents can easily and reliably call into Glean
- Define and maintain standards and conventions for Glean’s public REST APIs (resource design, versioning, errors, deprecations), and provide the OpenAPI schemas, tools, and CI checks that other teams use when building and evolving endpoints
- Implement and harden platform and integration services in Go (and occasionally Java) that support developer workflows, agents, and external integrations, with a focus on reliability, observability, and debuggability
- Build and improve developer tooling and automation that reduce “paper cuts” for external developers
- Collaborate with security and SRE to design and operate authentication and authorization flows for developer scenarios (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, dynamic client registration, service‑to‑service auth)
- Shape and improve the developer experience on developers.glean.com by contributing to documentation, quickstarts, reference material, migration guides, and changelogs
- Work closely with product managers, solutions engineers, and other product teams to understand real‑world developer and partner use cases, support escalations when needed, and turn those learnings into improvements in standards, tooling, and SDKs
- Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle‑tested ones, depending on your experience and interests
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 only emerged from stealth in 2021, it received a $1 Billion valuation in early 2022, thus achieving unicorn status, and has received nearly $400 million in funding so far. The SaaS platform is already used by some major companies including 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. 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 benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision for you and yours
- Competitive compensation and stock options
- 401k contribution
- Flexible work (3 days a week in the office), though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective
- Company events, from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat
- Flexible hours, unlimited PTO, and company-wide winter break shutdown
- Transparent culture
- Learning and development stipend
- Free meals with lunch and dinner options every day
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Arvind Jain
(CEO)Former Engineer at Google and Microsoft. Is the co-founder of high growth startup Rubrik, which delivers data security and operational resilience for enterprises.
Piyush Prahladka
(Software Engineer)Prior to joining the co-founding team at Glean, they worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, then as an Engineering Lead at Uber.
Tony Gentilcore
(Product Engineering Lead)Former Developer at At&T and TJC Labs. For ten years, served as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, including a spell as Founder and Tech Lead / Manager of the Chrome Speed Team.
TR Vishwanath
(Engineering Lead)Before co-founding Glean, 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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