Glean Posted 20d ago

Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Admin Console

Location

San Francisco

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$200–300k

Gross per year

Experience

7+ years

Lead level

Job summary

Responsibilities

We’re hiring a Tech Lead for our Admin Console team to engineer one of the most important product surfaces at Glean: the admin experience that helps customers deploy, govern, and scale Glean across their organizations.

Lead and grow the Admin Console engineering team, owning strong technical direction.
Own architecture and execution for core admin-facing workflows including data source setup, security configuration, deployment management, and feature rollout controls.
Partner closely with Product and Design to simplify complex enterprise workflows and make the admin experience more intuitive and scalable.
Help evolve the Admin Console from a system centered on crawlers and data setup into a broader control plane for enterprise context, actions, governance, and AI capability…
Improve self-serve activation so admins can get their organizations up and running faster, with less dependency on human support.

What they're looking for

7+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud‑native applications.
BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong coding skills in at least one of: Python, Go, Java, C++, Javascript.
Product‑minded: you prioritize customer impact, clear SLAs/SLOs, and pragmatic iteration.
Ownership‑driven with a positive, proactive attitude; comfortable leading projects or learning from battle‑tested engineers.