Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform
$210k - $300k • Remote • Mountain View, CA
Posted 9d ago
About the job
Glean is building the horizontal AI platform that powers how employees use AI at work, extending beyond Glean to tools like Copilot, Gemini, and ChatGPT. This team is responsible for the end-to-end platform experience, including standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs, client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, MCP servers, custom context like code and memory, and the supporting infrastructure and documentation. As part of a rapidly growing startup, this role involves working across multiple layers of the stack, from backend services to developer tools and SDKs.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Glean's REST API standards, including versioning, backward-compatibility, deprecation policies, and OpenAPI specification tooling.
- Design and ship new API endpoints to expose Glean's platform primitives (search, knowledge graph, chat, agent) as stable, well-documented developer surfaces.
- Build the API gateway layer, handling routing, authentication, rate limiting, quota management, and usage metering.
- Define reusable platform primitives on top of Glean's horizontal layers for composition by internal teams and external partners.
- Work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries for developers integrating with Glean.
- Instrument API usage to track adoption metrics, error patterns, and latency SLOs.
Requirements
- Experience working across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation.
- Familiarity with API gateway concepts such as routing, authentication, rate limiting, and metering.
- Experience with API standards, versioning, and OpenAPI specifications.
- Ability to design and build SDKs and client libraries.
- Experience instrumenting API usage for metrics and SLOs.