Software Engineer, AI and Security

<strong><strong>About Glean:</strong></strong><br><br>Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company's cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.<br><br>Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain's deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.<br><br><strong>About the Role:</strong><br><br>Glean is looking for driven engineers to solve cutting edge problems in data and AI security and governance. In a rapidly growing startup, this entails empathizing with customer needs, understanding the problems and research in the domain to come up with novel solutions to challenging problems. Engineers are expected to develop ideas with product managers and designers to best balance engineering constraints with requirements, delivering intuitive experiences that enterprises can rely on to keep their users safe.<br><br><strong>You will:</strong><br><ul><li>Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond</li><li>Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers</li><li>Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions</li><li>Architect data pipelines, AI models, and REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize product flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving domain requirements</li><li>Write robust code that's efficient, easy to read, maintain and test</li></ul><br><strong>About You:</strong><br><ul><li>5+ years of experience in product engineering</li><li>Experience developing enterprise security products</li><li>Experience in using AI/ML in the product </li><li>BA/BS in computer science, or related degree</li><li>Experience building and shipping scalable features across the frontend and backend</li><li>Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment</li><li>A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features</li><li>A user-centric and empathetic mentality for product development </li><li>Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus</li><li>Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL</li><li>Comfortable with or desire to master Golang, Java and TypeScript</li><li>Comfortable with effective use of AI tools for development</li></ul><br><strong>Location:</strong><br><ul><li>This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Palo Alto office)</li></ul><br><strong>Compensation & Benefits:</strong><br><br>The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>#LI-HYBRID

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