Software Engineer, Agents

Glean; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Glean, in Bangalore, seeks product engineers to help build the future of AI Agents at work. You will own user-facing product experiences end to end while staying close to the underlying systems that enable those experiences.

You will collaborate with design, product, research, and go-to-market teams to identify high‑value use cases, balance ambitious goals with engineering rigor, and ensure reliability and performance of agent-powered features.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in computer science, or related degree.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience building product software.
• Strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java or TypeScript, with an emphasis on building reliable, well-tested systems.
• Experience building AI, agentic, workflow, automation, or developer-product experiences is a strong plus.
• Strong product sense and comfort working across both user-facing experiences and backend systems.
• Leadership skills and past management experience are a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end product experiences that help users create and configure AI agents for real work.
• Design and ship workflows that help users evaluate agent quality, inspect results, and understand failure modes.
• Build product loops that help agents improve over time through feedback, evals, optimization, and self‑improvement primitives.
• Help users deploy and operate both auto‑mode agents and more independent agents with the right guardrails, controls, and visibility.
• Work across frontend, backend, prompting, harness behaviour, infrastructure, and product systems to turn agent capabilities into polished user experiences.
• Partner closely with design, product, research, and go‑to‑market teams to identify high‑value agent use cases and make them successful in practice.
• Balance product ambition with engineering rigor, making thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, latency, trust, and cost.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

TypeScript

Education

BA/BS in CS

Job description

About The Role

Glean is looking for product engineers to help build the future of AI Agents at work. In this role, you will work across product, AI, and platform to help users build, evaluate, self‑improve, deploy, and operate powerful agents inside Glean. This highly cross‑functional role focuses on owning user‑facing product experiences end to end while staying close to the underlying systems that enable those experiences.

You Will

• Build end‑to‑end product experiences that help users create and configure AI agents for real work.
• Design and ship workflows that help users evaluate agent quality, inspect results, and understand failure modes.
• Build product loops that help agents improve over time through feedback, evals, optimization, and self‑improvement primitives.
• Help users deploy and operate both auto‑mode agents and more independent agents with the right guardrails, controls, and visibility.
• Work across frontend, backend, prompting, harness behaviour, infrastructure, and product systems to turn agent capabilities into polished user experiences.
• Partner closely with design, product, research, and go‑to‑market teams to identify high‑value agent use cases and make them successful in practice.
• Balance product ambition with engineering rigor, making thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, latency, trust, and cost.

About You

• BA/BS in computer science, or related degree.
• Minimum 6+ years of experience building product software.
• Strong coding skills in languages such as Go, Python, Java or Typescript, with an emphasis on building reliable, well‑tested systems.
• Experience building AI, agentic, workflow, automation, or developer‑product experiences is a strong plus.
• Strong product sense and comfort working across both user‑facing experiences and backend systems.
• Leadership skills and past management experience are a bonus.

Location

• This role is in person in Bangalore, India.

Compensation & Benefits

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 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.