Software Engineer, Cloud Deployment Infrastructure

Gleanwork; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Education stipend

Wellness stipend

Healthy lunches provided

Job summary

Glean is seeking a Cloud Deployment Software Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will build systems that bootstrap cloud accounts and projects, wire authentication, and turn deployment workflows into reliable productized experiences for customers.

You will work across AWS and GCP, using Terraform and other IaC tools, to automate complex deployments in hybrid cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in platform, infrastructure, or cloud-focused roles.
• Solid backend engineering fundamentals and experience with infrastructure-heavy systems.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Strong networking fundamentals including VPCs, subnets, routing, proxies, and private connectivity.
• Experience building or improving deployment automation and onboarding workflows.
• Able to turn complex setup problems into repeatable productized systems and own cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve systems that automate customer setup and deployment across cloud environments.
• Develop deployment workflows and infrastructure-as-code templates reflecting customer environments.
• Enhance support for BYO-VPC, customer-managed keys, air-gapped environments, and custom-region deployments.
• Work on cloud account and project bootstrapping, authentication wiring, proxying, private networking, and deployment orchestration.
• Collaborate with Platform, Security, Product, and customer-facing teams to speed, secure, and simplify deployments.
• Improve AWS and GCP deployment tooling for better reliability and coverage over time.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

AWS/GCP networking

Deployment automation

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

About Glean

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 is 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.

About the Role

Glean is seeking a Cloud Deployment Software Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team. This team focuses on customer setup and deployment, especially in complex cloud, hosting, and security environments. You will help build the systems that bootstrap cloud accounts and projects, wire authentication, and turn deployment workflows into reliable, repeatable productized experiences for customers.

You will

• Build and improve systems that automate customer setup and deployment across cloud environments.
• Develop deployment workflows and infrastructure‑as‑code templates that mirror customer environments and reduce manual setup work.
• Improve support for complex deployment scenarios including BYO‑VPC, customer‑managed keys, air‑gapped environments, and custom‑region deployments.
• Work on cloud account and project bootstrapping, authentication wiring, proxy and private networking, and deployment orchestration.
• Partner closely with Platform, Security, Product, and customer‑facing teams to make deployments faster, safer, and easier to operate.
• Raise the quality, reliability, and coverage of our AWS and GCP deployment tooling over time.

About you

• You have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in platform, infrastructure, or cloud‑focused roles.
• You have solid backend engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across infrastructure‑heavy systems.
• You have hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP.
• You have experience with Terraform or other infrastructure‑as‑code tools.
• You have strong networking fundamentals, including VPCs, subnets, routing, proxies, and private connectivity.
• You have built or improved deployment automation, onboarding workflows, internal cloud platforms, or customer‑environment setup systems.
• You can balance engineering rigor with pragmatism and are excited to turn complex setup problems into repeatable productized systems.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate well across functions, and are comfortable taking ownership in an evolving environment.

Location

This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our San Francisco office).

Compensation & Benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $200,000 – $270,000 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 401(k) plan to support your long‑term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as 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.