Glean is seeking to build a Developer Platform that external and internal developers rely on to extend Glean, by creating systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more, and bringing Work AI to every employee, in every company.
Requirements
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (ideally Golang, or strong interest in learning it); experience with TypeScript, Python and/or Java is a plus.
- Experience with at least some of the following (and excited to grow into the rest):
- Designing or maintaining SDKs or client libraries
- Building agent or integration tooling (IDEs, agents, workflows, plugins)
- Working with REST APIs and schema‑based definitions like OpenAPI
- Designing or integrating OAuth2/OIDC and related auth flows.
- Experience building and shipping backend or platform systems with a strong interest in developer experience – SDKs, tools, integrations, and APIs – not just a single product surface.
- A developer‑centric mindset: you care about ergonomics (APIs, SDKs, tooling, and docs) that make other engineers more productive and confident.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
- Own and advance agent‑focused tooling and SDKs (including MCP and related integrations) so external frameworks, IDEs, and agents can easily and reliably call into Glean.
- Define and maintain standards and conventions for Glean’s public REST APIs (resource design, versioning, errors, deprecations), and provide the OpenAPI schemas, tools, and CI checks that other teams use when building and evolving endpoints.
- Implement and harden platform and integration services in Go (and occasionally Java) that support developer workflows, agents, and external integrations, with a focus on reliability, observability, and debuggability.
- Build and improve developer tooling and automation that reduce “paper cuts” for external developers.
- Collaborate with security and SRE to design and operate authentication and authorization flows for developer scenarios (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, dynamic client registration, service‑to‑service auth).
- Shape and improve the developer experience on developers.glean.com by contributing to documentation, quickstarts, reference material, migration guides, and changelogs.
Other
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment and are comfortable collaborating with product teams, security, SRE, and customer‑facing teams to solve ambiguous problems.
- A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small infrastructure improvements and larger cross‑team initiatives.
- This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)
- We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
