Glean

Software Engineer, Data Foundations

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale connectors to SaaS and on-premise systems, including Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, and GitHub.
  • Implement full synchronization, low-latency incremental updates through webhooks and APIs, rate limiting, and complex authentication flows.
  • Build datasource capabilities such as actions, live fetch, and query language support.
  • Transform unstructured enterprise content into structured, permission-aware representations for search and LLM reasoning.
  • Design document schemas and enrichment pipelines for entity extraction, access-graph propagation, redactions, and related processing.
  • Own correctness, freshness, and performance across petabyte-scale data flows.
  • Solve distributed-systems challenges involving ordering, idempotency, exactly-once processing, backpressure, retries, queues, workers, and storage.
  • Preserve fine-grained access controls, deletions, and sensitivity constraints.
  • Partner with Search Serving, Product, Platforms, and Security teams on exposing enterprise context to LLMs and agents.
  • Improve observability, alerting, and automation for onboarding customers and data sources.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building production backend or data infrastructure systems.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, queues, and large-scale SQL or NoSQL storage.
  • Ability to reason about SLOs, error budgets, failure modes, and correctness guarantees.
  • Comfort with strict consistency and permission-modeling challenges.
  • Experience with Java, Go, C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
  • Prior experience with enterprise connectors, search/indexing, information retrieval, or security-sensitive systems is a strong plus.
  • Power-user experience with LLMs and AI tools is expected in the workflow.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring 4 days per week in one of the San Francisco Bay Area offices.
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Generous time-off policy.
  • 401(k) contribution plan.
  • Home office improvement stipend.
  • Annual education and wellness stipends.
  • Regular company events and healthy lunches daily.

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BackendData Engineering
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About Glean

11-50 employees

Glean.ai is Intelligent AP. We leverage untapped invoice data to surface relevant context, actionable insights, and savings recommendations that power great spend decisions.

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