Glean

Software Engineer, Agentic Runtime

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Mountain View, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own runtime engineering problems end-to-end from architecture and design through production launch and ongoing reliability.
  • Build services for session lifecycle, streaming responses, structured tool execution, memory and state, and policy or guardrails.
  • Optimize performance, correctness, latency, tail behavior, and token or tool budgets.
  • Integrate with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and internal evaluation frameworks.
  • Implement fault isolation, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
  • Create deep observability through tracing, metrics, and logs, along with playbooks and SLOs for high availability and on-call operations.
  • Collaborate with product, quality, and application teams on roadmap priorities.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
  • BS/BA in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong coding ability in at least one of Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or C++.
  • Experience operating services on Kubernetes and at least one major cloud platform such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Familiarity with event or streaming systems such as Pub/Sub and Kafka, caching such as Redis, and low-latency data stores.
  • Practical understanding of LLM and agent building blocks including tool or function calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model selection or routing.
  • Strong observability and debugging skills involving tracing, metrics, dashboards, and production forensics.
  • Experience with policy or guardrails, multi-tenant isolation, rate limiting, concurrency control, or cost optimization is a plus.
  • Product-minded, ownership-driven, proactive, and comfortable leading projects or learning from experienced engineers.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in the Mountain View office.
  • Base salary range of $180,000–$210,000 annually, plus potential variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage, generous time off, and a 401(k) plan.
  • Home office improvement stipend and annual education and wellness stipends.
  • Regular company events and healthy lunches provided daily.
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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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