Senior Site Reliability Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Glean:</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></div></div><div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>

About

the Role:</strong></span></div> <p class="wnfdnt10 _1ibi0s3fd _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3eg" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p class="wnfdnt10 _1ibi0s3fd _1ibi0s3ce _1ibi0s3eg"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You will:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Technical Leadership and Mentorship<strong>:</strong> 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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensure High Availability: Implement and maintain resilient cloud architectures, monitor system performance, and proactively identify and resolve potential bottlenecks or points of failure. </span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Incident Management: Participate in primary oncall 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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure and applications for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security engineers to implement best practices and ensure compliance with security standards and policies.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About you: </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of experience in a senior-level role within Site Reliability Engineering or similar role, particularly in managing cloud-based services and infrastructure.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3+ years of experience leading projects and designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems running in Cloud.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Practical experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform is essential.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and best SRE and security practices.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proficiency in using monitoring and alerting tools to detect and respond to potential issues effectively</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Mountain View Office)</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>

Compensation &

Benefits:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">#LI-HYBRID</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>AI-First Mindset at Glean:</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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. <strong>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. </strong>Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.</span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates and Applicants:</strong></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), or other privacy laws may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available in our <a href="https://www.glean.com/privacy"><strong>Privacy Policy</strong></a>. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. US applicants and their applications are subject to arbitration of disputes as outlined in our <a href="https://www.glean.com/arbitrationagreement"><strong>Applicant Arbitration Agreement</strong></a>.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br>By clicking “Submit Application,” I confirm that I have read the Global Data Privacy Notice and the <a href="https://www.glean.com/arbitrationagreement"><strong>Applicant Arbitration Agreement</strong></a>, and I agree to the terms.  </span></div></div>