Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Developer platforms are becoming a defining layer of modern SaaS, especially as products expand through integrations, agents, and partner ecosystems. This role sits at that leverage point, shaping the APIs, SDKs, and tooling that determine how easily other teams and external developers can build on top of the core application. The remit spans public interfaces, internal standards, and the operational backbone needed for reliable extensibility, which is central to SaaS companies aiming to compound product value through third party development.
For a long term SaaS engineering career, developer experience work builds durable skills in interface design, versioning strategy, and backwards compatibility, all under real production constraints. The emphasis on OpenAPI schemas, CI checks, and authentication patterns also maps closely to how SaaS companies scale platform governance without slowing delivery. Exposure across Go, Python, and TypeScript further reinforces the cross stack fluency often required in platform and infrastructure adjacent roles.
This position fits engineers who prefer enabling other builders rather than owning a single end user feature surface. It suits professionals who enjoy setting conventions, reducing friction through tooling and documentation, and partnering across security, SRE, and product to resolve ambiguous platform problems. The hybrid setup also signals a collaborative working model with frequent cross functional touchpoints.
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 creative engineers to build the Developer Platform that external and internal developers rely on to extend Glean. Our team owns the developer experience end‑to‑end: standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs and client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, and the infrastructure and docs that make it easy to build on Glean. In a rapidly growing startup, this means working across multiple layers of the stack – backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and docs – and partnering closely with product, security, SRE, and other engineering teams. You’ll spend most of your time in Go, Python and TypeScript building the foundations that power integrations, agents, and custom applications, while also helping define what “great” looks like for APIs and developer experience across Glean.
You will:
- Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks.
- Own and advance agent‑focused tooling and SDKs (including MCP and related integrations) so external frameworks, IDEs, and agents can easily and reliably call into Glean.
- Define and maintain standards and conventions for Glean’s public REST APIs (resource design, versioning, errors, deprecations), and provide the OpenAPI schemas, tools, and CI checks that other teams use when building and evolving endpoints.
- Implement and harden platform and integration services in Go (and occasionally Java) that support developer workflows, agents, and external integrations, with a focus on reliability, observability, and debuggability.
- Build and improve developer tooling and automation that reduce “paper cuts” for external developers.
- Collaborate with security and SRE to design and operate authentication and authorization flows for developer scenarios (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, dynamic client registration, service‑to‑service auth).
- Shape and improve the developer experience on developers.glean.com by contributing to documentation, quickstarts, reference material, migration guides, and changelogs.
- Work closely with product managers, solutions engineers, and other product teams to understand real‑world developer and partner use cases, support escalations when needed, and turn those learnings into improvements in standards, tooling, and SDKs.
- Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle‑tested ones, depending on your experience and interests.
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building and shipping backend or platform systems with a strong interest in developer experience – SDKs, tools, integrations, and APIs – not just a single product surface.
- 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.
- Experience with at least some of the following (and excited to grow into the rest):
- Designing or maintaining SDKs or client libraries
- Building agent or integration tooling (IDEs, agents, workflows, plugins)
- Working with REST APIs and schema‑based definitions like OpenAPI
- Designing or integrating OAuth2/OIDC and related auth flows.
- A developer‑centric mindset: you care about ergonomics (APIs, SDKs, tooling, and docs) that make other engineers more productive and confident.
- Thrive in a customer‑focused, tight‑knit, cross‑functional environment and are comfortable collaborating with product teams, security, SRE, and customer‑facing teams to solve ambiguous problems.
- A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot, and take ownership of both small infrastructure improvements and larger cross‑team initiatives.
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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