Software Engineer (Tech Lead, Admin Console)

Join Glean, a company focused on bringing Work AI to every employee in every company. As a Tech Lead for the Admin Console team, you will play a crucial role in engineering the admin experience that helps customers deploy, govern, and scale Glean across their organizations. This high-impact, full-stack role requires strong technical direction, collaboration with product and design, and the ability to grow a small but strategically important team. You will own architecture and execution for core admin-facing workflows, improve self-serve activation, and build systems that help admins safely scale Glean over time.

• Lead and grow the Admin Console engineering team, owning strong technical direction and guiding architecture.
• 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.

• 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
• Experience working on products where usability, governance, permissions, and technical complexity all matter
• Strong coding skills in at least one of: Python, Go, Java, C++, Javascript
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort partnering with product, design, security, and platform teams
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Product‑minded: you prioritize customer impact, clear SLAs/SLOs, and pragmatic iteration
• Experience mentoring engineers with different technical strengths, including frontend and backend team members
• Ownership‑driven with a positive, proactive attitude; comfortable leading projects or learning from battle‑tested engineers
• You have experience building enterprise SaaS, enterprise platform, admin console, or similarly configurable product experiences
• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems or cloud‑native applications
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and shape roadmap, architecture, and team execution in a fast-moving environment