Technical Lead, Glean
Billing and Revenue Platform
$210-260k
4 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
Job no longer available
AI-based search engine connecting enterprise data
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$210-260k
4 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To expand human potential to do extraordinary work.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience, including 2 years as tech lead or lead engineer on complex projects
- Experience building platforms and web interfaces, including frontend, APIs, and backend services
- Meaningful experience with billing, payments, pricing, or other revenue-critical systems (usage-based or subscription); or you have built similarly high-integrity, auditable systems
- Strong ability to drive technical direction, make tradeoffs explicit, and align cross-functional stakeholders around pragmatic decisions
- An owner mindset and excitement about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer and business impact
- Expertise in Golang, Java, Typescript, SQL is highly desirable
- Experience with or desire to learn large language models, retrieval augmented generation, agents, and their cost structures is beneficial
What the job involves
- Glean is seeking a lead engineer to drive the billing and revenue platform that powers Glean’s consumption-based pricing for our AI products
- As a lead engineer, you’ll provide deep technical leadership and own critical parts of our billing stack end to end
- You’ll work closely with Product, Finance, Data, and Go-To-Market to ensure every AI feature we ship is accurately metered, transparently billed, and margin-positive
- At the same time, you’ll help design powerful, elegant abstractions that make it easy and safe for product teams to integrate with billing—from logging usage to surfacing billing insights in the admin console
- Act as the technical lead for key initiatives across our billing and revenue platform
- Work hands-on to design and implement systems for usage metering, pricing logic, credits, and admin-facing billing dashboards
- Provide technical leadership and vision across a broad billing surface area, spanning data pipelines, backend services, and web UX
- Drive the evolution of our consumption / Flex pricing infrastructure in a fast-paced environment, with a high bar for correctness, reliability, and debuggability
- Partner with Finance, Pricing, RevOps, and Product to translate pricing strategy into robust technical designs and workflows
- Define and maintain guardrails for LLM and agent costs (e.g., limits, anomaly detection, margin monitoring) so product teams can ship AI features confidently
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers on the team
Application process
- As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required
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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