Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

Glean
Mountain View
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 210,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["REST","APIs","OpenAPI","JSON Schema","Golang","TypeScript","Python","Java","OAuth2","OIDC"]

Build and evolve REST API standards and developer surfaces for Glean’s horizontal AI platform. Design new API endpoints, API gateway features, and platform primitives across backend services, SDKs, and docs to empower external developers and internal teams. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced startup to deliver reliable, scalable API tooling and integrations.

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Glean
3 months ago

Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

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Job Summary

Build and evolve REST API standards and developer surfaces for Glean’s horizontal AI platform. Design new API endpoints, API gateway features, and platform primitives across backend services, SDKs, and docs to empower external developers and internal teams. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced startup to deliver reliable, scalable API tooling and integrations.
Location: Mountain View
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Build the API gateway layer: routing, authentication (OAuth2, API keys, OIDC), rate limiting, quota management, and per-tenant usage metering.
  • •Define reusable platform primitives on top of Glean’s horizontal layers (connectors, security/governance, knowledge graph, memory, model orchestration) so they can be composed by internal teams and external partners.
  • •Work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 210,000 - 260,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kHome OfficeEducation StipendWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of industry software engineering experience, with meaningful time shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms
  • •Deep fluency in REST API design principles (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error semantics, hypermedia, OpenAPI/JSON Schema)
  • •Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Golang preferred; experience with TypeScript, Python, and/or Java a plus)
  • •Strong collaboration in customer-focused, cross-functional environments with ownership mindset
  • •Ability to lead, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
Experience:5+ yearsEnterprise softwareSaaSDeveloper tools
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:RESTAPIsOpenAPIJSON SchemaGolangTypeScriptPythonJavaOAuth2OIDC
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GolangTypeScriptPythonJavaOpenAPIJSON SchemaOAuth2OIDC

Company Brief

Glean
Provides an enterprise search and knowledge discovery platform that helps organizations find information across apps, drives, and internal tools, improving employee productivity and onboarding through AI-powered search and relevance ranking.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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