Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage

Generous time-off policy

Home office improvement stipend

Annual education and wellness stipend

Job summary

Gleanwork is looking for a Software Engineer to join their Platform Infrastructure team in San Francisco. You will be responsible for automating customer setup and deployment across various cloud environments. Ideal candidates will have over 4 years of software engineering experience, particularly in cloud and platform roles. The position offers a hybrid work model with fabulous compensation and benefits.

You will collaborate with multiple teams to enhance deployment workflows and contribute to a fast-paced productized environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in platform, infrastructure, or cloud-focused roles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including VPCs, subnets, routing, proxies, and private connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve systems that automate customer setup and deployment across cloud environments.
• Develop deployment workflows and infrastructure as code templates.
• Work on cloud account and project bootstrapping and authentication wiring.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure experience

Backend engineering fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Terraform or infrastructure as code tools

Deployment automation

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.

About the Role

Glean is seeking a 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. This is a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys cloud infrastructure, networking, infrastructure as code, and solving real-world deployment problems with clean software abstractions.

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, airgapped 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, GCP.
• You have experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
• You have strong networking fundamentals, including areas such as 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 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 stipend 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.

Compliance & Legal

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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AI-First Mindset at Glean

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.