Software Engineer, Backend - Agents
Job Summary
Job Description
Glean is seeking Backend engineers to develop a high-performing, scalable, and secure system that makes enterprise knowledge accessible. The role involves working on a cloud-native application stack, including distributed systems, unified application framework, and security. You will be involved in all aspects of the development cycle, from design to production launch, working collaboratively to identify impactful projects and mentoring junior engineers. The goal is to ensure instant access to information while balancing system costs and comprehensive monitoring and deployment in various cloud environments.
Must have:
- 3+ years of experience
- BA/BS in computer science or related degree
- Experience with infrastructure for distributed systems or cloud-native applications
- Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit, and cross-functional environment
- Proactive and positive attitude
- Strong coding skills (Go/Python/Java)
- Designing for reliability and scale
- Writing well-tested components
Good to have:
- Familiarity with cloud native development practices in GCP/AWS/Azure is a plus
Perks:
- 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
8 skills required
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 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) 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:
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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