Application Security Engineer

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Glean provides an AI-powered enterprise search and work assistant that indexes 100+ SaaS connectors, uses RAG and customizable models, enforces permissions, and enables generative assistants and multi-step automations.

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<div class="content-intro"><div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Glean:</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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 - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.</span></div></div><div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>About the Role:</strong></span></div> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Glean is looking for an&nbsp;<strong>Application Security Engineer</strong> with a primary focus on ensuring that our entire technology stack is free of software vulnerabilities (CVEs). This role is responsible for securing our base OS images, ensuring all open-source software (OSS) dependencies are scanned and patched, and integrating cutting-edge security tools into our CI/CD pipeline. The ideal candidate will drive the adoption of solutions like Google’s Assured Open Source Software (OSS) and explore alternative approaches to enhance software security.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong>You will:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Implement and improve the vulnerability management lifecycle, ensuring our entire tech stack is free from known vulnerabilities/CVEs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Continuously scan, monitor, and patch OSS dependencies to mitigate supply chain risks and enforce best practices for dependency management.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Work closely with engineering teams to integrate state-of-the-art SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning tools into the CI/CD pipeline to detect and remediate vulnerabilities early.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Define and maintain best practices for secure coding to ensure all code developed by Glean engineers is free from vulnerabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ensure secure posture in SDLC by securing designs, conducting secure code reviews and penetration testing the features.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Develop automated security validation tests to enforce vulnerability-free deployments across the stack.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lead the adoption and, if necessary, develop custom security solutions to manage and mitigate security risks at scale.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12