Software Engineer, APIs & Context Platform

What you'll do

• Own REST API standards and build documented endpoints and gateway capabilities, including authentication, rate limits, quotas, and usage metering.
• Design and evolve SDKs, client libraries, reusable platform primitives, and developer tooling across backend services and documentation.
• Track API adoption, errors, and latency; bring developer feedback into product planning.

What they ask for

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience, including meaningful time building and shipping public-facing APIs or developer platforms in production.
• Deep fluency in REST API design, including versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error semantics, hypermedia, and OpenAPI/JSON Schema.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
• BA/BS in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Golang, or strong interest in learning it.
• Experience with TypeScript, Python, and/or Java.

Pay

USD $210,000 - $300,000 annually (base salary)

Tools

REST APIs, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, Golang, TypeScript, Python, Java, OAuth2

AI focus

Builds a context platform and developer surfaces for Glean’s AI capabilities, including agent SDKs and integrations, MCP servers, custom code and memory context, and model orchestration. An AI-focused interview exercise or discussion is part of the process.