Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Glean • San Francisco, CA

133d • $140,000 - $265,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Developer Productivity to shape the way our engineers build, test, and ship software. Our codebase is large and multi-language, powered by Bazel, with pipelines running on GitHub Actions and cloud remote execution. In this role, you will design and optimize build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling, while also enabling engineers to effectively leverage AI-powered coding and productivity tools. Your work will reduce friction in everyday workflows, scale our infrastructure, and help the entire engineering team move faster with confidence.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating or enabling AI developer tools is a plus.
• Passion for multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers.

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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage.
• Generous time-off policy.
• 401k plan to support long-term goals.
• Home office improvement stipend.
• Annual education and wellness stipends.
• Vibrant company culture through regular events.
• Healthy lunches daily.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level