Software Engineer, Backend (San Francisco)

Overview

Founded in 2019, Glean is an AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean enables employees to access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery to help teams leverage their collective intelligence.

Glean was founded by Arvind Jain to address the challenges of finding and understanding information at work. The platform is an AI-powered enterprise search solution that helps people access the information they need quickly and intuitively. Glean combines enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and application- and agent-building capabilities to redefine how employees work.

About the Role

Glean is looking for Backend/Infrastructure engineers to build a highly performant, scalable, secure, permissions-aware system that makes enterprise knowledge readily available to employees in all contexts of their work. The role offers opportunities to work on a modern cloud-native application stack using best practices, with technical challenges such as building scalable distributed systems, underlying storage, a unified data model for indexing diverse sources, end-to-end security, cost-aware performance, and tooling for monitoring and deployment across multiple cloud environments.

You will

• Own impactful infrastructure problems from inception and architecture to production launch
• Write well thought out design documents and robust, high-quality, well-tested code
• Work collaboratively with a strong team to identify and prioritize impactful projects for the roadmap
• Mentor junior engineers or learn from experienced engineers

You are

• 3+ years of experience
• BA/BS in computer science or related degree
• Experience working on infrastructure for distributed systems or cloud-native applications

Key knowledge and skills

• Thrives in a customer-focused, cross-functional environment; team player and willingness to take on high-impact work
• Proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and own tasks and features
• Strong coding skills (Go/Python/Java/C++ etc) with emphasis on reliability and scale, and well-tested components
• Familiarity with cloud-native development practices in GCP/AWS/Azure is a plus

Location

• Hybrid role (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)

Compensation and Benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation is determined by location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Some roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off, a 401k plan, home office stipend, annual education and wellness stipends, and regular team events with daily healthy lunches.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are a diverse team and are committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.