Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of platform engineering and product delivery for enterprise search. The scope spans distributed systems, ingestion pipelines, APIs, and end-user interfaces, which is characteristic of SaaS products that must balance reliability, security, and usability for large organizations. Building a secure search index over heterogeneous enterprise data sources is a recurring SaaS problem with real operational constraints.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work develops durable skills in designing cloud-native systems that need to scale, remain fault tolerant, and serve multiple product surfaces. The emphasis on performance benchmarking and tuning, plus rigorous code review and testing strategies, maps closely to the engineering practices that matter in subscription software where uptime and latency directly affect retention. Collaboration with product teams also reinforces the translation of customer requirements into maintainable platform capabilities.
This role is best suited to engineers who enjoy moving across layers rather than specializing narrowly, and who prefer work that alternates between deep systems concerns and customer-facing features. It fits someone who values strong engineering fundamentals, is comfortable with multiple languages and frameworks, and wants their contributions to connect infrastructure decisions to product outcomes.
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 Technologies, Inc. has multiple positions available for a Software Engineer. As a Software Engineer, you will help build a software-based platform that can scale indefinitely, including scalable enterprise search solutions. You will work across distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and user interfaces to deliver secure, high-quality products that meet customer needs.
What You Will Do
- Develop a software-based platform that can scale indefinitely, including scalable enterprise search solutions.
- Build large-scale fault-tolerant distributed systems, preferably with knowledge of performance benchmarking tools and performance tuning on Linux-based systems.
- Perform thorough code review for peers, including interface design, code quality, and testing strategies.
- Understand customer requirements and implement them in solutions.
- Work closely with the company’s product teams to understand customer requirements and ensure features satisfy those requirements and are delivered effectively with high quality.
- Implement data ingestion pipelines to retrieve data from enterprise data sources and build a secure search index over that data.
- Design and implement user interfaces used by enterprise workers to search enterprise content.
- Design APIs to build other search-based applications.
Who You Are
- You have a Master’s degree, or foreign degree equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering (any field), or a related quantitative discipline, plus three (3) months of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in a related field.
- You have experience working on infrastructure for distributed systems or cloud-native applications, or experience building full-stack applications that span front-end, REST APIs, and application server, or experience training and productionizing machine learning, or information retrieval systems.
- You have experience with Go or C++.
- You have experience with Java.
- You have experience with Python.
- You have experience with TypeScript.
- You have algorithmic design skills.
- You have experience with data analytics.
- You have experience with Node.
- You have experience with Ruby on Rails, Django, or Flask.
- You have experience with React.
- Any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience is acceptable.
Location: Mountain View, CA. Telecommuting is an option.
Compensation & Benefits
The standard base salary range for this position is $187,741 - $234,000 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.
Submit a resume with references using the apply button on this posting or by email at:
jobs@glean.com at Req.# SWE24GL2.
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