Software Engineer, Storage
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 140000 - 265000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys 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.
At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.About the Role:
Glean is seeking a Backend/Infrastructure Engineer to build and evolve the Storage layer that powers a highly available performant secure and cost-effective suite of storage options for all data at Glean.
Youll own the storage systems that handle Gleans most sensitive data from enterprise documents and permission hierarchies to user behavioral signals and real-time query path data. Your work will directly enable organizations at scale to discover and act on their critical knowledge supporting millions of searches chat interactions and agent workflows.
Youll deliver robust uptime guarantees autoscaling and reliable alerting/monitoring for a key component that runs across multiple cloud providers. As part of the Storage team youll be responsible for a critical piece of Gleans infrastructure working closely with several other teams to support their workloads.
Youll also work across the stack to abstract cloud differences reduce human intervention through self-healing systems and drive real business impact by enabling Gleans ever-growing scale.
You will:
- 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
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
- Experience with storage systems (e.g. databases object stores or distributed file systems)
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
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 $140000 - $265000 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 offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were 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.
Key Skills
- Data Center Experience
- Disaster Recovery
- VMware
- Computer Networking
- NFS
- Solaris
- Windows
- Virtualization
- Linux
- SAN
- Operating Systems
- Troubleshooting
About Company
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