About Glean:
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 building the horizontal AI platform that powers how employees use AI at work not just in Glean but across tools like Copilot Gemini ChatGPT IDEs and more. We are seeking creative engineers to build this context platform and deliver rich trustworthy experiences across all of those apps. This team owns the platform experience endtoend: standards and tooling for REST APIs SDKs and client libraries agent SDKs and integrations MCP servers custom context such as code and memory and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on a rapidly growing startup this means working across multiple layers of the stack backend services developer tools SDKs and docs.
You will:
- Own and evolve Gleans REST API standards: versioning strategy backward-compatibility guarantees deprecation policy and OpenAPI specification tooling.
- Design and ship new API endpoints that expose Gleans platform primitives search knowledge graph chat agent and others as stable well-documented developer surfaces.
- Build the API gateway layer: routing authentication (OAuth2 API keys OIDC) rate limiting quota management and per-tenant usage metering.
- Define reusable platform primitives on top of Gleans horizontal layers (connectors security/governance knowledge graph memory model orchestration) so they can be composed by internal teams and external partners.
- Work across backend services developer tools SDKs and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Design build and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
- Instrument API usage to surface adoption metrics error patterns and latency SLOs
- Champion the external developer perspective internally bring customer feedback friction points and feature requests into the roadmap process.
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of industry software engineering experience with meaningful time spent building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production.
- Deep fluency in REST API design principles: versioning backward compatibility pagination error semantics hypermedia and OpenAPI/JSON Schema.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (ideally Golang or strong interest in learning it); experience with TypeScript Python and/or Java is a plus.
- Thrive in a customerfocused tightknit crossfunctional 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.
Location:
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $210000 - $260000 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.
#LI-HYBRID
AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean AI fluency is core to how we work and were committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process youll 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 isnt required.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:
Depending on your location the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our . By submitting your application you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our Applicant Arbitration Agreement. Required Experience:
IC
About Glean: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 10...
About Glean:
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 building the horizontal AI platform that powers how employees use AI at work not just in Glean but across tools like Copilot Gemini ChatGPT IDEs and more. We are seeking creative engineers to build this context platform and deliver rich trustworthy experiences across all of those apps. This team owns the platform experience endtoend: standards and tooling for REST APIs SDKs and client libraries agent SDKs and integrations MCP servers custom context such as code and memory and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on a rapidly growing startup this means working across multiple layers of the stack backend services developer tools SDKs and docs.
You will:
- Own and evolve Gleans REST API standards: versioning strategy backward-compatibility guarantees deprecation policy and OpenAPI specification tooling.
- Design and ship new API endpoints that expose Gleans platform primitives search knowledge graph chat agent and others as stable well-documented developer surfaces.
- Build the API gateway layer: routing authentication (OAuth2 API keys OIDC) rate limiting quota management and per-tenant usage metering.
- Define reusable platform primitives on top of Gleans horizontal layers (connectors security/governance knowledge graph memory model orchestration) so they can be composed by internal teams and external partners.
- Work across backend services developer tools SDKs and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Design build and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
- Instrument API usage to surface adoption metrics error patterns and latency SLOs
- Champion the external developer perspective internally bring customer feedback friction points and feature requests into the roadmap process.
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of industry software engineering experience with meaningful time spent building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production.
- Deep fluency in REST API design principles: versioning backward compatibility pagination error semantics hypermedia and OpenAPI/JSON Schema.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (ideally Golang or strong interest in learning it); experience with TypeScript Python and/or Java is a plus.
- Thrive in a customerfocused tightknit crossfunctional 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.
Location:
- This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office)
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $210000 - $260000 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.
#LI-HYBRID
AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean AI fluency is core to how we work and were committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process youll 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 isnt required.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:
Depending on your location the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our . By submitting your application you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our Applicant Arbitration Agreement. Required Experience:
IC
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