Full-Time

Software Engineer

Backend

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Glean

201-500 employees

AI-powered workplace search and knowledge solution

AI & Machine Learning

Mid

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

Own impactful infrastructure problems from inception to production launch
Write design documents and high-quality code
Collaborate with the team to prioritize projects
Mentor junior engineers

About Glean

We’re on a mission to make knowledge work faster and more humane. We believe that AI will fundamentally transform how people work. In the future, everyone will work in tandem with expert AI assistants who find knowledge, create and synthesize information, and execute work. These assistants will free people up to focus on the higher-level, creative aspects of their work.

We’re building a system of intelligence for every company in the world. On the surface, you can think of it as Google + ChatGPT for the enterprise. Under the hood, our platform is the connective tissue between AI and knowledge. It brings all of a company’s knowledge together, understands it at a deep level, provides industry-leading search relevance over it, and connects it to generative AI agents and applications.

Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers who saw a need in the enterprise space for their technical depth and passion for AI. We’re a diverse team of curious and creative people who want to help each other get big things done—so we can help other teams do the same.

We’re backed by some of the Valley’s leading venture capitalists—including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, and General Catalyst—and have assembled a world-class team with senior leadership experience at Google, Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Rubrik, Uber, Intercom, Pinterest, Palantir, and others.

Role

Glean is looking for Backend/Infrastructure engineers to build a highly performant, scalable, secure, permissions-aware system that makes all the relevant enterprise knowledge readily available to employees in all contexts of their work. The role provides ample opportunities to work on various aspects of building a modern cloud-native application stack using the latest best practices - examples of some technical challenges you can work on are building a scalable, reliable distributed system and underlying storage, a unified application framework and data model that makes it easy to index diverse sources of information, end-to-end aspects of security - application layer, platform layer as well as IT security, laser focus on making the experience feel instant, while at the same time balancing the system cost implications, and tooling for comprehensive monitoring and deployment of the system in multiple cloud environments.

What you will do and achieve

Own impactful infrastructure problems from inception and architecture to production launch
Write well thought out design documents and robust, high-quality and well-tested code
Work collaboratively with a strong team to identify the most impactful projects we should be prioritizing in our roadmap
Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones

Who 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

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
A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
Strong coding skills (for example in Go/Python/Java/C++ etc) with an emphasis on designing for reliability and scale, and writing well-tested components
Familiarity with cloud native development practices in GCP/AWS/Azure is a plus

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Medical, Vision and Dental coverage
Flexible work environment and time-off policy
401k
Company events
A home office improvement stipend when you first join
Annual education stipend
Wellness stipend
Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily

For California based applicants:

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation offered 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 are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We’re 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.

Glean

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Glean delivers an advanced AI-powered workplace search and knowledge discovery solution. By harnessing generative AI and deep learning-based large language models, it enhances semantic understanding of natural language queries. This leads to personalized results and continuous improvement of search capabilities based on company-specific language and contexts.

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$355.3M

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2019

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 58%

1 year growth

↑ 116%

2 year growth

↑ 306%

Benefits

Healthcare - Happy and healthy go together. We cover medical, dental, and vision for you and yours.

Competitive compensation - Have a real stake in your job and your future with competitive stock options.

401(k) - We make it easy to save for the future today by contributing to a 401k.

Flexible work - We work 3 days a week in the office, though we believe in folks working where they can be most effective.

Company events - We work hard and play hard - from weekly happy hours to our annual company retreat.

Unlimited PTO - Flexible hours, PTO, company-wide summer and winter break shutdown

Transparent culture - By default we keep things open and accessible so we can make better decisions together, faster.

Learning and development - We offer a learning stipend to help you grow and achieve your goals.

Free meals - With lunch and dinner options every day, no need to work while you’re hungry.