Software Engineer, Cloud Deployment Infrastructure

About the Role

Glean is seeking a Cloud Deployment Software Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team. This team focuses on customer setup and deployment, especially in complex cloud, hosting, and security environments. The engineer will build systems to bootstrap cloud accounts and projects, wire authentication, and turn deployment workflows into reliable, repeatable experiences for customers.

• Build and improve systems that automate customer setup and deployment across cloud environments.
• Develop deployment workflows and infrastructure as code templates that mirror customer environments and reduce manual setup work.
• Improve support for complex deployment scenarios including BYO-VPC, customer‑managed keys, air‑gapped environments, and custom‑region deployments.
• Work on cloud account and project bootstrapping, authentication wiring, proxy and private networking, and deployment orchestration.
• Partner closely with Platform, Security, Product, and customer‑facing teams to make deployments faster, safer, and easier to operate.
• Raise the quality, reliability, and coverage of our AWS and GCP deployment tooling over time.

• You have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in platform, infrastructure, or cloud‑focused roles.
• You have solid backend engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across infrastructure‑heavy systems.
• You have hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP.
• You have experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
• You have strong networking fundamentals, including VPCs, subnets, routing, proxies, and private connectivity.
• You have built or improved deployment automation, onboarding workflows, internal cloud platforms, or customer‑environment setup systems.
• You can balance engineering rigor with pragmatism and are excited to turn complex setup problems into repeatable productized systems.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate well across functions, and are comfortable taking ownership in an evolving environment.

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our San Francisco office)

The standard base salary range for this position is $200,000 – $270,000 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 medical, vision, and dental coverage; a generous time‑off policy; and the opportunity to contribute to your 401(k) plan.

Home office improvement stipend, annual education and wellness stipends, and healthy lunches daily are also provided.

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.