Security Engineer, Glean
Red Team
$200-280k
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
Enterprise search and knowledge management
Be an early applicant
Enterprise search and knowledge management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-280k
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). Masters in Information Security a big plus
- Experience with social engineering techniques and methodologies
- Proficiency in scripting languages like Python and Bash
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- A passion for learning, constantly seeking new ways to improve your skills and knowledge
- Bonus points for experience with cloud security, web application security, and post-exploitation frameworks
- A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
What the job involves
- Glean is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Red Team Engineer to join our team
- We are looking for an ultimate ethical adversary, who can leverage their expertise in network penetration testing, social engineering, and attack methodologies to expose our weaknesses and make us stronger
- Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-nit and cross-functional environment - being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company is a must
- Have familiarity with cloud native development practices in GCP/AWS/Azure is a plus
- Conduct network penetration testing, employing various techniques like exploiting vulnerabilities, bypassing defenses, and escalating privileges
- Design and execute targeted social engineering attacks to test human vulnerabilities and security awareness
- Develop assumed breach scenarios that mimic real-world attacks, testing our incident response procedures and readiness
- Utilize penetration testing frameworks like Metasploit, Kali Linux, and Burp Suite, constantly updating your knowledge and exploring new tools
- Collaborate with blue teams, developers, and stakeholders to communicate findings, prioritize vulnerabilities, and recommend remediation strategies
- Stay ahead of the curve by researching emerging threats, attending conferences, and actively contributing to the offensive security 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
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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