Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

About this role

Glean seeks a Software Engineer for Compute Infrastructure to design and operate the Kubernetes-based runtime platform powering AI search, assistant, and agentic workloads. You'll build scalable, cost-efficient multi-cloud systems serving production services at enterprise scale.

What you'll do

• Design and own backend/platform services for runtime infrastructure with focus on reliability, scalability, and AI workload performance
• Develop Kubernetes-based runtime primitives including service orchestration, scheduling, and autoscaling across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Collaborate with platform, data, and product teams to establish golden paths for service deployment, configuration, and operations
• Drive improvements in latency, resource utilization, and cost for core platform services and multitenant environments
• Implement infrastructure-as-code patterns, observability, and production guardrails including SLOs, dashboards, and safe rollout procedures

What they're looking for

• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Backend/platform service design
• Infrastructure-as-code
• System performance optimization
• Observability and monitoring
• Production reliability and SLOs
• Distributed systems