Hiring: Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform Company: Glean Location: Mountain View, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:58:44 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : API Gateway, Embedded Systems, GDPR, GitHub, Go, Java, LLM, OAuth2, OIDC, OpenAPI, Python, REST, SaaS, ServiceNow, TypeScript, Zendesk, Zoom About the job Experience: •8+ years of industry software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production. Required Skills: •Own and evolve Glean's REST API standards: versioning strategy, backward-compatibility guarantees, deprecation policy, and OpenAPI specification tooling. •Design and ship new API endpoints that expose Glean's platform primitives — search, knowledge graph, chat, agent and others — as stable, well-documented developer surfaces. •Build the API gateway layer: routing, authentication (OAuth2, API keys, OIDC), rate limiting, quota management, and per-tenant usage metering. •Define reusable platform primitives on top of Glean's horizontal layers (connectors, security/governance, knowledge graph, memory, model orchestration) so they can be composed 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 that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks. •Instrument API usage to surface adoption metrics, error patterns, and latency SLOs •Champion the external developer perspective internally — bring customer feedback, friction points, and feature requests into the roadmap process. Qualifications: •BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. •Deep fluency in REST API design principles: versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error semantics, hypermedia, and OpenAPI/JSON Schema. •Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (ideally Golang, or strong interest in learning it); experience with TypeScript, Python, and/or Java is a plus. •Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment – being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company is a must. •A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small tasks and large features. •This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View office) Compensation: •$210,000 - $300,000 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!