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Lead Software Engineer, Data Foundations

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Lead Glean's engineering team in building and scaling enterprise data management systems, collaborating on product initiatives and delivering robust solutions.
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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 enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.
About the Role:

We are Glean’s Data Foundation Team. We’re a high‐impact team that owns the enterprise data ingestion and management infrastructure within Glean that powers Glean’s Search and AI capabilities. We are looking for a technical lead who will pave the way for our hyper growth phase. With a robust product strategy, we are entering an ambitious product and team growth phase. We need engineering leaders who will build world-class software systems, uphold our cultural values of being fast-paced and customer-driven, and ensure solid execution in a highly collaborative environment.

You will:

As a hands-on technical lead at Glean, you will be pivotal in leading our engineering team to build and enhance our cutting-edge platform. You will:

  • Lead new product initiatives involving ingesting, understanding, and interacting with enterprise data—experimenting, prototyping, and shipping ideas quickly.
  • Scale robust distributed systems to handle billions of permissions-aware documents in real time, as well as build new systems from the ground up.
  • Drive high, direct impact by collaborating with cross-functional teams on business-critical projects, and working directly with customers.

About you:

  • You have 5+ years of experience in software engineering with 2 years experience as a technical lead, with a proven track record of delivering high scale backend services.
  • You have delivered vertical projects with net new features that needed to span & coordinate with multiple teams.
  • You have delivered a system that had to scale to large numbers of customers/users over a few years.
  • You have strong leadership skills and a demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve ambitious goals.
  • You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving innovation and leveraging technology to solve complex problems.
  • You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and can collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and are comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change.

Location: 

  • This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)

Compensation & Benefits:

The standard base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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