Software Engineer, Agents Runtime

8 Minutes ago • 3 Years + • $140,000 PA - $265,000 PA
Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

Glean is an AI-powered knowledge management platform founded in 2019, helping organizations find, organize, and share information across teams by integrating with various tools. The company aims to redefine how employees work through enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application/agent-building capabilities. The Agents Runtime team builds the low-latency, reliable, and secure foundation for Glean’s AI agents and assistant experiences, focusing on multi-turn orchestration, tool calling, model routing, memory, streaming, and safety.
Good To Have:
  • Experience operating services on Kubernetes and at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Familiarity with event/streaming systems (Pub/Sub, Kafka), caching (Redis), and data stores for low-latency paths.
  • Practical understanding of LLM/agents building blocks: tool/function calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model selection/routing.
  • Strong observability and debugging skills: tracing (OpenTelemetry), metrics, dashboards, and production forensics.
  • Background in policy/guardrails, multi-tenant isolation, rate-limiting, concurrency control, or cost optimization.
Must Have:
  • Own impactful runtime problems end-to-end, from architecture to production launch and reliability.
  • Build and evolve core services for session lifecycle, streaming responses, structured tool execution, memory/state, and policy/guardrails.
  • Design for performance, correctness, and cost, optimizing latency and token/tool budgets.
  • Integrate with leading LLM providers and internal evaluation frameworks.
  • Harden the platform with fault isolation, retries, timeouts, circuit-breaking, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
  • Instrument deep observability (tracing, metrics, logs) and create playbooks/SLOs for high availability.
  • Collaborate closely with product, quality, and application teams.
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
  • BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or C++, with a focus on reliability, performance, and tests.
  • Product-minded, prioritizing customer impact, clear SLAs/SLOs, and pragmatic iteration.
  • Ownership-driven with a positive, proactive attitude.
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • Generous time-off policy
  • Opportunity to contribute to 401k plan
  • Home office improvement stipend
  • Annual education stipend
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Vibrant company culture through regular events
  • Healthy lunches daily

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About Glean:

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

Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.

About the Role:

The Agents Runtime team builds the low‑latency, reliable, and secure foundation that powers Glean’s AI agents and assistant experiences at scale. You’ll design and operate core runtime services for multi‑turn orchestration, tool calling, model routing, memory, streaming, and safety. You’ll work across distributed systems, production observability, and ML infra integrations to deliver an experience that feels instant, accurate, and trustworthy — while optimizing cost and reliability.

You will:

  • Own impactful runtime problems end‑to‑end — from architecture and design to production launch and ongoing reliability.
  • Build and evolve core services for session lifecycle, streaming responses (e.g., gRPC/WebSockets), structured tool execution, memory/state, and policy/guardrails.
  • Design for performance, correctness, and cost: reduce p50/p95 latency, improve tail behavior, and optimize token/tool budgets.
  • Integrate with leading LLM providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini) and internal evaluation frameworks to improve quality and predictability.
  • Harden the platform with fault isolation, retries, timeouts, circuit‑breaking, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
  • Instrument deep observability (tracing, metrics, logs) and create playbooks/SLOs for high availability and on‑call excellence.
  • Collaborate closely with product, quality, and application teams to prioritize the most impactful roadmap investments.

You are:

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud‑native applications.
  • BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong coding skills in at least one of: Python, Go, Java, or C++, with a focus on reliability, performance, and tests.
  • Product‑minded: you prioritize customer impact, clear SLAs/SLOs, and pragmatic iteration.
  • Ownership‑driven with a positive, proactive attitude; comfortable leading projects or learning from battle‑tested engineers.
  • Experience operating services on Kubernetes and at least one major cloud (e.g., GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Familiarity with event/streaming systems (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka), caching (e.g., Redis), and data stores for low‑latency paths.
  • Practical understanding of LLM/agents building blocks: tool/function calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model selection/routing.
  • Strong observability and debugging skills: tracing (e.g., OpenTelemetry), metrics, dashboards, and production forensics.
  • Background in one or more areas is a plus: policy/guardrails, multi‑tenant isolation, rate‑limiting, concurrency control, cost optimization.

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 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, you'll 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. 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.

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