Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Platform and infrastructure roles sit at the center of how modern SaaS products stay reliable as usage grows, and this listing is notable for its explicit multi-cloud scope. The remit spans availability, performance, security, and cost effectiveness—core concerns for SaaS businesses that need consistent service levels while operating across AWS and/or GCP. The emphasis on automation, autoscaling, and monitoring reflects the operational maturity expected of customer-facing SaaS platforms.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, this kind of work builds durable leverage: designing infrastructure primitives that many product teams depend on, defining SLO/SLI thinking, and translating reliability goals into tooling, alerting, and runbooks. Experience with IaC (Terraform) and Kubernetes in production also transfers cleanly across SaaS companies, as does the cross-functional collaboration implied with product, design, and data science stakeholders.
This role tends to fit engineers who prefer owning foundational systems rather than a single application surface, and who like turning ambiguous reliability requirements into repeatable mechanisms. It also signals a path for someone ready to combine hands-on delivery with mentoring, while staying close to real production constraints in a hybrid, office-linked environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role:
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.
You will:
- 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
About you:
- 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 with Terraform, K8s (GKE/EKS), Data Pipelines (Beam/Flink/Kafka/PubSub/SQS), ML Pipelines, Object Storage (S3/GCS), Big Query, etc. is a plus.
- 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.
Location:
- This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and 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.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
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