Glean · 4 months ago
Lead Software Engineer, Data Foundations
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $265K/yr
5+ years expGlean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform founded in 2019, designed to enhance productivity and collaboration within organizations. The role of Lead Software Engineer in the Data Foundations team involves leading engineering efforts to build and enhance the platform's data ingestion and management infrastructure, ensuring solid execution and collaboration across teams.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AIMachine LearningSearch Engine
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in software engineering
2 years experience as a technical lead
Proven track record of delivering high scale backend services
Delivered vertical projects with net new features that needed to span & coordinate with multiple teams
Delivered a system that had to scale to large numbers of customers/users over a few years
Strong leadership skills
Demonstrated ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve ambitious goals
Strategic thinker passionate about driving innovation and leveraging technology to solve complex problems
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change
Benefits
Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
Generous time-off policy
401k plan
Home office improvement stipend
Annual education and wellness stipends
Regular events
Healthy lunches daily
Company
Glean
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers to improve workplace efficiency.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (22)
2024 (17)
2023 (7)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$768.2MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementSequoia CapitalGeneral Catalyst
2025-06-10Series F· $150M
2024-09-10Series E· $260M
2024-02-27Series D· $203.2M
Leadership Team
Arvind Jain
Founder and CEO
Michael Miao
VP of Finance & BizOps
Recent News
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