Software Engineer, Platform

Glean • San Francisco, CA

18d • $140,000 - $265,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and evolve the platform that powers a highly available, performant, secure and cost effective infrastructure across all clouds. You’ll deliver complex components with elegant automation, robust uptime guarantees, autoscaling, and reliable alerting/monitoring for infrastructure that runs across multiple cloud providers. As part of the Platform team, you’ll be responsible for critical pieces of Glean’s infrastructure, working closely with several other teams to support their workloads.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of experience in a role working with AWS and/or GCP IaaS services eg. compute, object storage, iam, networking, vpc.
• Experience managing large scale cloud infrastructure with IaC.
• Highly proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions
• Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
• Adaptable. Goals can change fast. You anticipate and react quickly.
• Autonomous. You own what you work on. You move fast and get things done.
• Excellent communication. You will need to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, and both verbally and in writing.
• Collaborative. You must work collaboratively in a cross-functional team and with people at all levels in an organization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Terraform, K8s (GKE/EKS), Data Pipelines (Beam/Flink/Kafka/PubSub/SQS), ML Pipelines, Object Storage (S3/GCS), Big Query, etc. is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
• Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers
• Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
• Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test

Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals.
• When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing.
• We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

What This Job Offers

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