Glean Technologies, Inc.
Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Glean Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s 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 more than 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 redefines how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise and Personal Knowledge Graphs map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context‑aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities – AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real‑time. The result is measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Gartner, Glean continues to accelerate global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI‑fluent and turn the super‑intelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
We’re building systems that run daily in Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more – deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll 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 creative engineers to build the Developer Platform that external and internal developers rely on to extend Glean. The team owns the developer experience end‑to‑end: standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs and client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on Glean. In a rapidly growing startup, you’ll work across multiple layers of the stack – backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and docs – and partner closely with product, security, SRE, and other engineering teams. You’ll spend most of your time in Go, Python, and TypeScript building foundations that power integrations, agents, and custom applications, while also helping define what “great” looks like for APIs and developer experience across Glean.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
Own and advance agent‑focused tooling and SDKs (including MCP and related integrations) so external frameworks, IDEs, and agents can easily and reliably call into Glean.
Define and maintain standards and conventions for Glean’s public REST APIs (resource design, versioning, errors, deprecations), and provide OpenAPI schemas, tools, and CI checks that other teams use when building and evolving endpoints.
Implement and harden platform and integration services in Go (and occasionally Java) that support developer workflows, agents, and external integrations, focusing on reliability, observability, and debuggability.
Build and improve developer tooling and automation that reduce “paper cuts” for external developers.
Collaborate with security and SRE to design and operate authentication and authorization flows for developer scenarios (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, dynamic client registration, service‑to‑service auth).
Shape and improve the developer experience on developers.glean.com by contributing to documentation, quickstarts, reference material, migration guides, and changelogs.
Work closely with product managers, solutions engineers, and other product teams to understand real‑world developer and partner use cases, support escalations when needed, and turn those learnings into improvements in standards, tooling, and SDKs.
Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle‑tested ones, depending on your experience and interests.
Qualifications
BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building and shipping backend or platform systems with a strong interest in developer experience – SDKs, tools, integrations, and APIs – not just a single product surface.
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.
Experience with at least some of the following:
Designing or maintaining SDKs or client libraries
Building agent or integration tooling (IDEs, agents, workflows, plugins)
Working with REST APIs and schema‑based definitions like OpenAPI
Designing or integrating OAuth2/OIDC and related auth flows.
A developer‑centric mindset: you care about ergonomics (APIs, SDKs, tooling, and docs) that make other engineers more productive and confident.
Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment and are comfortable collaborating with product teams, security, SRE, and customer‑facing teams to solve ambiguous problems.
A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small infrastructure improvements and larger cross‑team initiatives.
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 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, 401(k) plan support, a home‑office improvement stipend, and annual education and wellness stipends. Regular events, healthy lunches, and a vibrant company culture are also part of our package.
Equal Opportunity 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. As set forth in Glean’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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At its core, Glean redefines how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise and Personal Knowledge Graphs map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context‑aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities – AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real‑time. The result is measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, and Gartner, Glean continues to accelerate global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI‑fluent and turn the super‑intelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
We’re building systems that run daily in Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more – deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll 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 creative engineers to build the Developer Platform that external and internal developers rely on to extend Glean. The team owns the developer experience end‑to‑end: standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs and client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on Glean. In a rapidly growing startup, you’ll work across multiple layers of the stack – backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and docs – and partner closely with product, security, SRE, and other engineering teams. You’ll spend most of your time in Go, Python, and TypeScript building foundations that power integrations, agents, and custom applications, while also helping define what “great” looks like for APIs and developer experience across Glean.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
Own and advance agent‑focused tooling and SDKs (including MCP and related integrations) so external frameworks, IDEs, and agents can easily and reliably call into Glean.
Define and maintain standards and conventions for Glean’s public REST APIs (resource design, versioning, errors, deprecations), and provide OpenAPI schemas, tools, and CI checks that other teams use when building and evolving endpoints.
Implement and harden platform and integration services in Go (and occasionally Java) that support developer workflows, agents, and external integrations, focusing on reliability, observability, and debuggability.
Build and improve developer tooling and automation that reduce “paper cuts” for external developers.
Collaborate with security and SRE to design and operate authentication and authorization flows for developer scenarios (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, dynamic client registration, service‑to‑service auth).
Shape and improve the developer experience on developers.glean.com by contributing to documentation, quickstarts, reference material, migration guides, and changelogs.
Work closely with product managers, solutions engineers, and other product teams to understand real‑world developer and partner use cases, support escalations when needed, and turn those learnings into improvements in standards, tooling, and SDKs.
Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle‑tested ones, depending on your experience and interests.
Qualifications
BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience building and shipping backend or platform systems with a strong interest in developer experience – SDKs, tools, integrations, and APIs – not just a single product surface.
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.
Experience with at least some of the following:
Designing or maintaining SDKs or client libraries
Building agent or integration tooling (IDEs, agents, workflows, plugins)
Working with REST APIs and schema‑based definitions like OpenAPI
Designing or integrating OAuth2/OIDC and related auth flows.
A developer‑centric mindset: you care about ergonomics (APIs, SDKs, tooling, and docs) that make other engineers more productive and confident.
Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment and are comfortable collaborating with product teams, security, SRE, and customer‑facing teams to solve ambiguous problems.
A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small infrastructure improvements and larger cross‑team initiatives.
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 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, 401(k) plan support, a home‑office improvement stipend, and annual education and wellness stipends. Regular events, healthy lunches, and a vibrant company culture are also part of our package.
Equal Opportunity 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. As set forth in Glean’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
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