Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

Glean; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage

Generous time-off policy

Home-office improvement stipend

Annual education and wellness stipends

Healthy lunches daily

Job summary

A leading Work AI platform in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer for Developer Productivity to enhance build systems and CI/CD pipelines. This hybrid role involves developing tooling integrations and optimizing workflows, leveraging AI to improve productivity. The ideal candidate has experience with software engineering and CI/CD systems, particularly with Bazel and GitHub Actions. Competitive salary range of $140,000 – $265,000 annually with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background (Java, Go, Python, or similar).
• Experience with build systems (Bazel strongly preferred).
• Hands-on with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
• Experience integrating AI developer tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize build systems and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Bazel monorepo with support for multiple languages.
• Enable engineers to integrate AI-powered coding assistants into workflows.
• Reduce CI latency through remote execution, caching, and parallelization.

Skills

Software engineering background (Java, Go, Python)

Debugging skills

Experience with CI/CD systems

Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes

Interest in solving workflow bottlenecks

Tools

Bazel

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

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.

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.

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—deeply embedded where people get things done.

About the Role

We are looking for a Software Engineer, Developer Productivity to shape how our engineers build, test, and ship software. Our codebase is large and multi‑language, powered by Bazel, with pipelines running on GitHub Actions and cloud remote execution.

In this role, you will design and optimize build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling, while also enabling engineers to effectively leverage AI‑powered coding and productivity tools. Your work will reduce friction in everyday workflows, scale our infrastructure, and help the entire engineering team move faster with confidence.

You Will

Build Systems & Tooling

• Develop and maintain our Bazel monorepo with support for multiple languages.
• Improve build hermeticity, caching, reproducibility, and dependency management.
• Extend Bazel with custom rules, macros, and integrations.
• Operate and optimize pipelines on GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and cloud runners.
• Reduce CI latency through remote execution, caching, and parallelization.
• Instrument pipelines with telemetry and dashboards to measure speed, reliability, and cost.
• Build tools and workflows (CLI utilities, IDE plugins, GitHub bots) that improve day‑to‑day developer experience.
• Automate debugging of flaky tests and CI failures.
• Simplify onboarding and local dev environments.

AI Adoption & Productivity

• Enable engineers to integrate AI‑powered coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) into daily workflows.
• Build agentic tooling that automates CI failure analysis, PR triage, and code‑review support.
• Collect usage insights, build dashboards, and iterate on adoption strategies to maximize developer ROI from AI.

Additionally

• You’ll work on critical build and CI/CD systems that touch every engineer’s workflow.
• You’ll have a direct impact on the speed, reliability, and cost of software delivery.
• You’ll be at the frontier of AI adoption in engineering teams, shaping how humans and AI collaborate in development.
• You’ll have opportunities to contribute to open source (Bazel, rules projects, CI tooling) and share learnings at conferences.

About You

• Strong software engineering background (Java, Go, Python, or similar).
• Experience with build systems (Bazel strongly preferred; Buck, Blaze, Gradle, or Maven acceptable).
• Hands‑on with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud runners, and distributed build/test environments.
• Experience integrating or enabling AI developer tools is a plus.
• Strong debugging skills and an interest in solving workflow bottlenecks.
• Passion for multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers.

Location

• This role is hybrid (3‑4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices).

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 – $265,000 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. When you join, you'll receive a home‑office improvement stipend and 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

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.

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