Glean
Software Engineer, Agentic Runtime
$180K–$210K
Mountain View, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud-native applications.
- Education
- BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and operate low-latency, reliable, secure runtime services that orchestrate Glean’s AI agents and assistant experiences.
What you'll do
- Design and operate runtime services for session lifecycle, streaming, tool execution, memory/state, and safety policies.
- Improve runtime performance, reliability, and cost; integrate LLM providers and evaluation frameworks.
- Build observability and reliability practices, including tracing, metrics, logs, playbooks, SLOs, and on-call readiness.
What they ask for
- Strong coding skills in at least one of Python, Go, Java, Javascript, Typescript, or C++, with a focus on reliability, performance, and testing.
- Experience operating services on Kubernetes and at least one major cloud.
- Practical understanding of LLM/agent building blocks, including tool/function calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model selection/routing.
- Strong observability and debugging skills, including tracing, metrics, dashboards, and production forensics.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with event/streaming systems, caching, and data stores for low-latency paths.
- Background in policy/guardrails, multi-tenant isolation, rate-limiting, concurrency control, or cost optimization.
Pay
$180,000 - $210,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Javascript, Typescript, C++, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry
AI focus
Develop agent-runtime capabilities for multi-turn orchestration, tool calling, model routing, memory, streaming, and safety; integrate LLM providers and evaluation frameworks.
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