Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform
Build and evolve Glean's REST APIs, API gateway, and developer SDKs for their AI platform. Requires 5+ years experience building public-facing APIs and strong REST design skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production.
- 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.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with TypeScript, Python, and/or Java.
Compensation & Benefits
- Standard base salary range: $210,000 - $260,000 annually.
- Comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage.
- Generous time-off policy and 401k plan contribution.
- Home office improvement stipend.
- Annual education and wellness stipends.
- Healthy lunches daily and regular company events.
Skills
Rest Api Design, Api Versioning, Openapi, Oauth2, Api Gateway, Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, Sdk Development
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