Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Glean; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Annual education stipend

Wellness stipend

Healthy lunches daily

401k plan

Generous time-off

Job summary

Glean seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production services in a hybrid Mountain View environment. In this hands-on role, you will design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure, improve SLOs, and guide blameless incident learning.

You will automate deployment, monitoring, and on-call workflows, and work with security engineers to uphold best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in a senior-level Site Reliability Engineering role.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years leading distributed cloud projects.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Terraform experience.
• Solid networking and security fundamentals for SRE.
• Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
• Ensure high availability of resilient cloud architectures.
• Participate in on-call rotations and blameless postmortems.
• Develop automation scripts, tooling, and deployment/monitoring processes.
• Optimize performance, capacity, and cost of cloud services.
• Collaborate on security and compliance with security engineers.
• Design and configure advanced monitoring and dashboards for production.
• Engage in the software development lifecycle and system design reviews.

Skills

Technical leadership

Incident management

Automation scripting

Performance optimization

Security practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

AWS

Azure

Job description

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 Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we're helping the world's largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you're excited to shape how the world works, you'll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more. You'll be deeply embedded where people get things done. You'll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role

Glean is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production services. In this hands‑on individual‑contributor role, you'll design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure; improve service reliability against meaningful SLOs; and help teams respond to production issues through effective observability, incident practices, and blameless learning. You'll contribute technical expertise to system and architectural decisions and partner with engineers across the organization to deliver dependable systems.

Glean's rapid growth brings complex distributed-systems challenges across a hybrid cloud environment. You'll use your software engineering and SRE skills to automate repetitive work, build tools, and improve deployment, monitoring, and on‑call workflows. From investigating incidents and reducing toil to optimizing performance, capacity, and cost, your work will help Glean scale while providing customers with a reliable experience.

You will

• Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Play a key role in driving technical excellence and fostering a culture of reliability across engineering teams. You will lead by example, setting best practices for incident management, performance optimization, and automation. Influence best practices, drive cross‑team collaborations, and contribute to the execution of key objectives in alignment with engineering leadership and cross‑functional partners. Establish strong technical credibility, shaping architectural decisions and ensuring the delivery of high‑quality, reliable systems.
• Ensure High Availability: Implement and maintain resilient cloud architectures, monitor system performance, and proactively identify and resolve potential bottlenecks or points of failure.
• Incident Management: Participate in primary on‑call rotation; cultivate technical curiosity and growth mindset, and a blameless postmortem culture within the team. Continuously optimize the on‑call process for sustainability and efficiency.
• Automation and Tooling: Develop and maintain automation scripts, tools, and processes to streamline system deployment, monitoring, and management tasks. Your contributions will be vital in efficiently scaling cloud operations.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure and applications for performance, scalability, and cost‑effectiveness.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security engineers to implement best practices and ensure compliance with security standards and policies.
• Monitoring and Alerting: Design and configure advanced monitoring systems to gain insights into system behavior, set up alerts, and respond proactively to potential issues. Create and maintain comprehensive dashboards and playbooks for production on‑call.
• Software Development Consultation: Engage actively in the entire software development lifecycle. Participate in system design reviews and provide valuable SRE insights during launch reviews, influencing and enhancing system architecture.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior‑level role within Site Reliability Engineering or similar role, particularly in managing cloud‑based services and infrastructure.
• 5+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems running in Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Practical experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform is essential.
• Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and best SRE and security practices.
• Proficiency in using monitoring and alerting tools to detect and respond to potential issues effectively

Location

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View Office)

The standard base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $260,000 annually. 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 offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time‑off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long‑term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We're committed to building and sustaining a diverse, inclusive workplace. We strive to attract and retain people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we do not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.

As set forth in Glean's Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.