Software Engineer, Platform

About Glean

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full‑scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business—without vendor lock‑in or costly implementation cycles.

About the Role

Glean is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and evolve the platform that powers a highly available, performant, secure and cost‑effective infrastructure across all clouds. You’ll deliver complex components with elegant automation, robust uptime guarantees, autoscaling, and reliable alerting/monitoring for infrastructure that runs across multiple cloud providers. As part of the Platform team, you’ll be responsible for critical pieces of Glean’s infrastructure, working closely with several other teams to support their workloads.

You Will

• Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
• Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers
• Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
• Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test

About You

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience in a role working with AWS and/or GCP IaaS services (compute, object storage, IAM, networking, VPC)
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Data Pipelines (Beam/Flink/Kafka/PubSub/SQS), ML Pipelines, Object Storage (S3/GCS), BigQuery, etc. is a plus
• Experience managing large‑scale cloud infrastructure with IaC
• Highly proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing monitoring, alerting, and runbooks
• Adaptable. Goals can change fast. You anticipate and react quickly
• Autonomous. You own what you work on. You move fast and get things done
• Excellent communication. You will need to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non‑technical audiences, both verbally and in writing
• Collaborative. You must work collaboratively in a cross‑functional team and with people at all levels in an organization

Location

• This role is hybrid (3‑4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)

Compensation & Benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000–$265,000 annually. Compensation will be determined by factors such as location, level, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, medical, vision, and dental coverage, a generous time‑off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to a 401(k) plan. You’ll receive a home‑office improvement stipend and annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and well‑being. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily.

EEO Statement

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development