
Lead Software Engineer, Data Foundations
About Glean:
Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.
Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.
Role
We are Glean’s Data Foundation Team. We’re a high‐impact team that owns the enterprise data ingestion and management infrastructure within Glean that powers Glean’s Search and AI capabilities. We are looking for a technical lead who will pave the way for our hyper growth phase. With a robust product strategy, we are entering an ambitious product and team growth phase. We need engineering leaders who will build world-class software systems, uphold our cultural values of being fast-paced and customer-driven, and ensure solid execution in a highly collaborative environment.
Who You Are
- You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering with 2 years experience as a technical lead, with a proven track record of delivering high scale backend services.
- You have delivered vertical projects with net new features that needed to span & coordinate with multiple teams.
- You have delivered a system that had to scale to large numbers of customers/users over a few years.
- You have strong leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve ambitious goals.
- You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving innovation and leveraging technology to solve complex problems.
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change.
What will you do
As a hands-on technical lead at Glean, you will be pivotal in leading our engineering team to build and enhance our cutting-edge platform. You will:
- Lead new product initiatives involving ingesting, understanding, and interacting with enterprise data—experimenting, prototyping, and shipping ideas quickly.
- Scale robust distributed systems to handle billions of permissions-aware documents in real time, as well as build new systems from the ground up.
- Drive high, direct impact by collaborating with cross-functional teams on business-critical projects, and working directly with customers.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, Vision and Dental coverage
- Flexible work environment and time-off policy
- 401k
- Company events
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Annual education stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Healthy lunches and dinners are provided daily
For California based applicants:
The standard base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $265,000 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.
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