Software Engineer, Backend

3 Months ago • 3 Years + • Backend Development • $140,000 PA - $265,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Glean is seeking Backend/Infrastructure engineers to develop a high-performance, scalable, secure, and permission-aware system that makes enterprise knowledge readily accessible to employees. You'll work on various aspects of building a modern cloud-native application stack using the latest best practices. This includes tackling challenges such as building a scalable and reliable distributed system, developing a unified application framework and data model for indexing diverse information sources, ensuring end-to-end security across applications, platforms, and IT, optimizing for an instant user experience, and creating comprehensive monitoring and deployment tooling for multiple cloud environments. You will own impactful infrastructure problems from initial conception and architecture through production launch, collaborate with a strong team to prioritize projects, and contribute to a positive and proactive work environment.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of experience
  • BA/BS in computer science or related degree
  • Experience with infrastructure for distributed systems or cloud-native applications
  • Strong coding skills in Go/Python/Java/C++ etc.
  • Focus on designing for reliability and scale
  • Well-tested code components
  • Team player, proactive attitude, and ownership
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with cloud-native development practices in GCP/AWS/Azure
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers or learning from senior ones
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • Flexible work environment and time-off policy
  • 401k
  • Company events
  • Home office improvement stipend
  • Annual education stipend
  • Wellness stipend
  • Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily

Job Details

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.

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