Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

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.
• 8 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 - $300000 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.

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