Solutions Architect, Glean
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Enterprise search and knowledge management
Open for applications
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Software development experience in at least two of the following: Python, Java, Go
- API and custom data integration experience in a Hybrid or SaaS environment
- Technical debugging: log analysis, code analysis, end-to-end transaction tracing
- Networking expertise: a deep understanding of networking, including cloud and on-premise networking
- Experience in at least two of the following disciplines: Software Engineering, Pre-Sales Engineering, Post-Sales Engineering, Professional Services, Support Engineering
- Hands-on experience with Cloud technologies in at least one of the following: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
- Security & audit experience: able to fully understand the technical and audit framework of the product and represent it with customer security & audit stakeholders
- Communication: professional presentation and interaction skills with both customers and internal teams
- Project planning: plan and execute the implementation of customer projects
- Self-motivated: a proactive approach to delivering service to customers
- Detail-oriented: highly organized and methodical, ensuring all issues are managed to completion
- Data-driven: utilize metrics and objective measurements to assess success and improvement opportunities for customers
- Pre or Post-sales Solution Architect experience in a product-led company is a huge plus
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 3 years of technical consulting experience or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent with at least 1 year of technical consulting experience
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking a talented Solutions Architect to join our rapidly expanding, venture-backed startup
- You will be the primary technical advisor to our customers post-sale, focusing on our Enterprise & Strategic segment, where the architecture and integration demands are high
- You will guide customers through their architecture, design, and implementation of Glean within their enterprise architecture
- Establish and maintain your role as the customer's primary technical advisor
- Think of yourself as the CTO of the customer relationship
- Work with customers to onboard new datasources and implement custom integrations of Glean into their work environment and business application architecture
- Build and provide tools, templates, and documentation for customers to leverage in integrating with Glean based on their business application stack
- Identify opportunities with the customer to expand the use of Glean within their business application architecture
- Provide training and guidance to customer technical resources to enable them to manage, support, and extend Glean in their environment
- Clear Communicator: professional presentation and interaction skills with both customers and internal teams
- Align technical plans with customers and Glean Customer Success to ensure priorities between Glean and the customer are fully aligned and executed against
- Assist with issue identification, troubleshooting, and remediation for your assigned customers through resolution
- Analytical: taking multiple inputs and approaches to issues to ensure the troubleshooting and resolution path is optimal
- Drive: ability to engage in and handle multiple issues of different priorities gracefully
- Work with Product Management and Engineering to drive improvements to the product helping customers expand their adoption of Glean
- Detail-oriented: highly organized and methodical, ensuring all issues are managed to completion
- Be an active member of the Glean customer technical community
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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2024
$260m
SERIES E
Feb 2024
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $655m
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 values
- One together – We leave our egos behind to forge a trusting, inclusive, and transparent environment
- Customer obsessed – We relentlessly work to solve customer problems and focus on product quality and excellence
- Owners – We take responsibility for our company, product, and culture, leaving things in a better state
- Think big, start small – We dream big and solve hard problems through continuous learning and rapid iteration
- Beyond boundaries – We are eager to learn and grow. We help each other thrive and aren’t afraid to try new things
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
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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