Glean
Technology
SoftwareEngineer,ComputeInfrastructure
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid+ candidates.
“Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure at Glean. Skills: Compute infrastructure, Kubernetes, Multi-cloud, AI workloads. Design backend services. Build backend services”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
On-call rotation, 4 days a week in office
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience, Distributed systems fundamentals, Operating high-throughput services, Operating low-latency services, Operating batch pipelines, Owning systems end-to-end, SLOs, Incident response, Safe deployment strategies, Operational runbooks
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus, Experience with AI workloads
What You'll Do.
Design backend services
Build backend services
Develop Kubernetes primitives
Evolve Kubernetes primitives
Collaborate with teams
Spin up batch workloads
Drive latency improvements
Drive resource utilization improvements
Drive cost improvements
Implement infrastructure as code
Harden infrastructure as code
Implement observability
Build shared mechanisms
Participate in on-call rotation
Lead incident response
Contribute to technical direction
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Platform engineering teams; Data engineering teams; Product engineering teams; Cross-functional teams
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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