Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Admin Console

Glean•San Francisco, CA

1d•$200,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is seeking a Tech Lead for their Admin Console team to engineer a critical product surface responsible for helping customers deploy, govern, and scale Glean across their organizations. This is a high-impact, full-stack role requiring an engineer who can guide architecture, collaborate closely with product and design, and contribute to the growth of a strategically important team. The Admin Console serves as the control plane for enterprise activation, admin confidence, and scalable rollout, enabling admins to configure authentication, data sources, permissions, governance, search settings, AI features, and deployment health from a central hub. As Glean transitions from an enterprise search company to an AI platform, the team's mission is evolving to manage not just data sources, but also the broader context layer of the system, including actions, live data, governance, and AI configuration.

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud‑native applications.
BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong coding skills in at least one of: Python, Go, Java, C++, Javascript.
Product‑minded: you prioritize customer impact, clear SLAs/SLOs, and pragmatic iteration.
Ownership‑driven with a positive, proactive attitude; comfortable leading projects or learning from battle‑tested engineers.
Experience building enterprise SaaS, enterprise platform, admin console, or similarly configurable product experiences.
Experience working on products where usability, governance, permissions, and technical complexity all matter.
Experience mentoring engineers with different technical strengths, including frontend and backend team members.
Ability to operate in ambiguity and shape roadmap, architecture, and team execution in a fast‑moving environment.
Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills and comfort partnering with product, design, security, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the Admin Console engineering team, owning strong technical direction.
Own architecture and execution for core admin-facing workflows including data source setup, security configuration, deployment management, and feature rollout controls.
Partner closely with Product and Design to simplify complex enterprise workflows and make the admin experience more intuitive and scalable.
Help evolve the Admin Console from a system centered on crawlers and data setup into a broader control plane for enterprise context, actions, governance, and AI capability management.
Improve self-serve activation so admins can get their organizations up and running faster, with less dependency on human support.
Improve visibility into crawl health, connector status, indexing progress, permissions, and rollout readiness so admins can confidently understand what is happening in their deployment.
Build systems and workflows that help admins safely scale Glean across users, teams, and capabilities over time through a coherent interface.
Collaborate deeply with backend, connector, infra, and security teams to deliver unified admin experiences that sit on top of platform and infrastructure layers.