Software Engineer, Storage
$140k - $265k • Mountain View, CA
Posted 1mo ago
About the job
Glean is seeking a Backend/Infrastructure Engineer to build and evolve the Storage layer that powers a highly available, performant, secure, and cost-effective suite of storage options for all data at Glean. You will own the storage systems that handle Glean’s most sensitive data, directly enabling organizations at scale to discover and act on their critical knowledge. Your work will support millions of searches, chat interactions, and agent workflows, delivering robust uptime guarantees, autoscaling, and reliable alerting/monitoring across multiple cloud providers. As part of the Storage team, you will be responsible for a critical piece of Glean’s infrastructure, working closely with several other teams to support their workloads. You will also work across the stack to abstract cloud differences, reduce human intervention through self-healing systems, and drive real business impact by enabling Glean’s ever-growing scale.
Responsibilities
- Own impactful infrastructure problems from inception and architecture to production launch.
- Write well-thought-out design documents and robust, high-quality, well-tested code.
- Work collaboratively with a strong team to identify the most impactful projects for the roadmap.
- Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle-tested ones.
- Own the storage systems that handle Glean’s most sensitive data.
- Deliver robust uptime guarantees, autoscaling, and reliable alerting/monitoring for a key component running across multiple cloud providers.
- Work across the stack to abstract cloud differences and reduce human intervention through self-healing systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience