Glean · 22 hours ago
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
$140K/yr - $265K/yrGlean is a Work AI platform that empowers organizations to work smarter with AI. The Software Engineer, Developer Productivity role focuses on shaping how engineers build, test, and ship software by designing and optimizing build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling to enhance productivity and reduce friction in workflows.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AIMachine LearningSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain our Bazel monorepo with support for multiple languages
Improve build hermeticity, caching, reproducibility, and dependency management
Extend Bazel with custom rules, macros, and integrations
Operate and optimize pipelines on GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and cloud runners
Reduce CI latency through remote execution, caching, and parallelization
Instrument pipelines with telemetry and dashboards to measure speed, reliability, and cost
Build tools and workflows (CLI utilities, IDE plugins, GitHub bots) that improve day-to-day developer experience
Automate debugging of flaky tests and CI failures
Simplify onboarding and local dev environments
Enable engineers to integrate AI-powered coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) into daily workflows
Build agentic tooling that automates CI failure analysis, PR triage, and code review support
Collect usage insights, build dashboards, and iterate on adoption strategies to maximize developer ROI from AI
Work on critical build and CI/CD systems that touch every engineer’s workflow
Have a direct impact on the speed, reliability, and cost of software delivery
Be at the frontier of AI adoption in engineering teams, shaping how humans and AI collaborate in development
Contribute to open source (Bazel, rules projects, CI tooling) and share learnings at conferences
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering background (Java, Go, Python, or similar)
Experience with build systems (Bazel strongly preferred; Buck, Blaze, Gradle, or Maven acceptable)
Hands-on with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.)
Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud runners, and distributed build/test environments
Strong debugging skills and an interest in solving workflow bottlenecks
Passion for multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers
Preferred
Experience integrating or enabling AI developer tools is a plus
Benefits
Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
Generous time-off policy
Opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan
Home office improvement stipend
Annual education and wellness stipends
Healthy lunches daily
Company
Glean
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers to improve workplace efficiency.
Founded in 2019
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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