Glean
Work AI
SoftwareEngineer,APIs&ContextPlatform
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“Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform at Glean. Skills: API design, API development, developer platforms. Own and evolve Glean's REST API standards: versioning strategy, backward-compatibility guarantees, deprecation policy, and OpenAPI specification tooling. Design and ship new API endpoints that expose Glean's platform primitives — search, knowledge graph, chat, agent and others — as stable, well-documented developer surfaces”
Industry & Context.
troubleshoot
4 days a week in our Mountain View office
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BAS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, 5+ 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 interest in learning it)
Nice to Have
experience with TypeScript, Python, and/or Java is a plus
What You'll Do.
Own and evolve Glean's REST API standards: versioning strategy
backward-compatibility guarantees
and OpenAPI specification tooling
Design and ship new API endpoints that expose Glean's platform primitives — search
agent and others — as stable
well-documented developer surfaces
Build the API gateway layer: routing
authentication (OAuth2
and per-tenant usage metering
Define reusable platform primitives on top of Glean's horizontal layers (connectors
model orchestration) so they can be composed by internal teams and external partners
Work across backend services
and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment
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
Champion the external developer perspective internally — bring customer feedback
and feature requests into the roadmap process
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
tight-knit, cross-functional environment; team player; work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation
Full Job Description
About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for ente
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