Glean

Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

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3 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$210k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own REST API standards, including versioning, backward-compatibility guarantees, deprecation policies, and OpenAPI specification tooling
  • Design and ship stable, documented API endpoints for search, knowledge graph, chat, agents, and other platform primitives
  • Build the API gateway layer with routing, authentication, rate limiting, quota management, and per-tenant usage metering
  • Define reusable platform primitives across connectors, security and governance, knowledge graph, memory, and model orchestration layers
  • Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries for application and agent-framework integrations
  • Work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation
  • Instrument API usage to measure adoption, error patterns, and latency SLOs
  • Bring customer feedback, friction points, and feature requests into roadmap planning

Requirements

  • BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • At least five years of industry software engineering experience
  • Meaningful experience building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production
  • Deep knowledge of REST API design, including versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error semantics, hypermedia, OpenAPI, and JSON Schema
  • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language, ideally Golang
  • TypeScript, Python, and/or Java experience is a plus
  • Customer-focused, collaborative, proactive, and willing to take ownership of work ranging from small tasks to large features

Benefits

  • 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
  • Healthy lunches daily
  • Hybrid work arrangement with four days per week in the Mountain View office

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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.