Software Engineer APIs and Context Platform
Glean is an enterprise AI platform that connects company knowledge and systems to provide permission-aware search, AI assistance, and agents.
Funding history
About Glean
Glean develops enterprise Work AI software. Its platform provides enterprise search, a conversational AI assistant, and tools to build, govern, and orchestrate AI agents using a company’s connected data and permissions.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own REST API standards, design and ship platform endpoints, build gateway capabilities, and create reusable platform primitives. You will work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, client libraries, documentation, and API-usage instrumentation while bringing developer feedback into roadmap planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms
- REST API design expertise, including versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error semantics, hypermedia, OpenAPI, and JSON Schema
- Modern backend language proficiency, ideally Golang
- TypeScript, Python, or Java experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve REST API standards, versioning, compatibility guarantees, deprecation policy, and OpenAPI tooling
- Design and ship stable, documented API endpoints
- Build API gateway routing, authentication, rate limiting, quota management, and per-tenant usage metering
- Define reusable platform primitives
- Build and evolve SDKs and client libraries
- Instrument API usage for adoption metrics, error patterns, and latency SLOs
- Bring external developer feedback and feature requests into roadmap planning
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- Generous time-off policy
- 401k plan
- Home office improvement stipend
- Annual wellness stipend
- Regular company events
- Daily healthy lunches
Hiring Process
Brief AI-focused exercise or discussion during the interview process.
