Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

About Glean: Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Age [... source excerpt omitted ...] ntext platform and deliver rich, trustworthy experiences across all of those apps. This team owns the platform experience end‑to‑end: standards and tooling for REST APIs, SDKs and client libraries, agent SDKs and integrations, MCP servers, custom context such as code and memory, 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. You will: Own and evolve Glean's REST API standards: versioning strategy, backward-compatibility guarantees, deprecation policy, and OpenAPI specification tooling. Design and ship new API endpoint [... source excerpt omitted ...] rnal teams and external partners. Work across backend services, developer tools, SDKs, and documentation in a fast-moving startup environment. Design, build, and evolve SDKs and client libraries that developers use to integrate with Glean from their own applications and agent frameworks. Instrument API usage to surface adoption metrics, error patterns, and latency SLOs Champion the external developer perspective internally — bring customer feedback, friction points, and feature requests into the roadmap process. About you: BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of industry software engineering experience, with meaningfu