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Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Admin Console

Glean· Engineering
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Hybrid (Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA)$200k - $300kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Tech Lead role for the Admin Console team at Glean, focusing on the admin experience to deploy, govern, and scale Glean across customer organizations. High-impact, full-stack leadership with architecture guidance, cross-functional collaboration, and team growth.

Responsibilities

  • 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 management.
  • Improve self-serve activation so admins can get their organizations up and running faster, with less dependency on human support.
  • Improve visibility into crawl health, connector status, indexing progress, permissions, and rollout readiness so admins can confidently understand what is happening in their deployment.
  • Build systems and workflows that help admins safely scale Glean across users, teams, and capabilities over time through a coherent interface.
  • Collaborate deeply with backend, connector, infra, and security teams to deliver unified admin experiences that sit on top of platform and infrastructure layers.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • Experience building enterprise SaaS, enterprise platform, admin console, or similarly configurable product experiences.
  • Experience working on products where usability, governance, permissions, and technical complexity all matter.
  • Experience mentoring engineers with different technical strengths, including frontend and backend team members.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguity and shape roadmap, architecture, and team execution in a fast-moving environment.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and comfort partnering with product, design, security, and platform teams.

Skills

Required:software engineeringfrontend and backend collaborationarchitectural leadership

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • generous time-off policy
  • 401k plan
  • home office improvement stipend
  • annual education and wellness stipends
  • regular events and healthy lunches every day
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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