Senior Application Engineer, Data Sources

Glide; California (MO); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Glide is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to enhance their platform team focusing on data sources. The role involves building robust solutions, optimizing legacy systems, and contributing to a dynamic, remote engineering culture with a focus on operational excellence across scalable applications.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Supportive remote work environment

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer.
• Deep experience with complex Javascript/TypeScript codebases.
• Extensive knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Add features and capabilities to the Glide tables product area.
• Construct and optimize complex SQL queries.
• Ensure frontend components and backend services interact efficiently.

Skills

Javascript/TypeScript

Relational databases

Problem-solving

Architectural design

Communication

Tools

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Job description

Glide is looking for a Senior Application Engineer working on the Platform team with a focus on Glide data sources. This role will play a critical part in building and refining Glide’s table/datastore product surface area, ensuring a seamless and scalable experience for our users. You will work on creating robust solutions that improve the usability of our systems while maintaining operational excellence.

The ideal candidate thrives in complex codebases, has extensive TypeScript experience, and is capable of navigating legacy systems while modernizing them. A solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and the ability to work across both frontend and backend systems is a plus (many of the features you will work on will be exposed via our React frontend).

We’re building a simpler, faster way for anyone to create custom software for their business without any technical or design skills. As customers create apps to visualize, interact with, and analyze their growing data sets, you’ll ensure the capabilities match their evolving needs while keeping the big picture in mind.

Life as a Glide Engineer

We are a distributed remote team, which means we work asynchronously most of the time. Some highlights include:

• Joining a Pod Sync, where you’ll work with your Pod Lead and fellow engineers to prioritize and distribute work
• Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems in Slack or Zoom
• Shipping new features, bugfixes, and technical improvements
• Reviewing your teammates’ Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback
• Sharing on-call duties with the rest of your Engineering colleagues
• Attending an annual Glide Sync, our company-wide meeting where we hear from customers, share demos, and discuss company progress
• Attending team-level offsites once or twice a year where we map out our large initiatives and bootstrap their early work all while visting an interesting place (Miami, Hawaii, Dublin….)!

Responsibilities

As an individual contributor in a deeply technical area we expect you to write and review code and proactively make risk-adjusted architectural decisions to solve clear problems.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Adding features and capabilities to the Glide tables product area which involves an existing large Typescript monolith, and a newer Kotlin specialized service.
• Exposing these new capabilities in the Glide React frontend.
• Implementing and maintaining filtering, sorting, and other table view features to support large data tables
• Constructing and optimizing complex SQL queries for a dynamic table schema powering thousands of customer applications with highly varied use-cases
• Collaborating on the new computation model and optimizing its integration with existing systems
• Modernizing legacy systems using science experiments, progressive rollout techniques, and additional tests
• Writing and reviewing high-quality, maintainable code in TypeScript and Kotlin
• Ensuring frontend components and backend services interact efficiently
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation, architecture briefs, and proposals
• Leveraging observability tools to monitor and optimize performance
• Mentoring teammates and contributing to a collaborative engineering culture

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a full-stack software engineer
• Deep experience with large and complex Javascript/TypeScript codebases
• Demonstrated ability to navigate and improve legacy systems
• Extensive knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and their integration with frontend systems
• Experience building complex, data-intensive web applications
• Strong problem-solving and architectural design skills
• Effective communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Passionate, self-motivated, and adaptable to a fast-paced, evolving environment

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Kotlin/Java
• Knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
• Experience optimizing database interactions for performance and scalability
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus)

Compensation

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, a supportive and dynamic remote work environment, and opportunities for career growth. If you are a self-starter with a passion for scaling platform services and the teams that support them, we want to hear from you!

Glide is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Location

This position is open to remote employees located within GMT PDT timezones (i.e., centered on ET)

Eligibility for Employment or Contractor engagement:

• All individuals must be able to show authorization to work in the country in which they reside.