Senior IT Engineer

About the company

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.

About this role

<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-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Role:</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Glean is looking for a seasoned L3 Senior IT Engineer to join our team as a technical visionary and primary escalation authority within IT Support. In this capacity, you will take full ownership of our sophisticated infrastructure, identity management, and endpoint security ecosystems, overseeing critical platforms such as Okta, Google Workspace, and Kandji to ensure seamless operational excellence.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a senior leader, you will resolve high-stakes technical challenges, conduct deep-dive root-cause investigations, and champion automation to refine our global processes. You will be instrumental in upholding rigorous compliance standards while providing high-level mentorship to our L1 and L2 engineering staff. Collaboration is key; you will work cross-functionally with Security, HR, Finance, and Engineering stakeholders, as well as external partners, to architect and maintain IT services that are both secure and scalable.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This individual contributor position is situated in Bangalore, where you will report directly to the IT Support leadership team.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You will:</strong></span></div> <div> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Act as the final escalation point for complex IT issues across identity, infrastructure, endpoints, networking, and SaaS applications.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Administer and optimize Okta, Google Workspace, Kandji, and related identity and endpoint-management platforms.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Troubleshoot advanced issues across macOS, Windows, and Linux environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead root-cause analysis for major incidents and implement long-term corrective and preventive actions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Monitor system health, endpoint compliance, patch status, alerts, and operational risks.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design and implement automation for onboarding, offboarding, provisioning, access management, compliance checks, reporting, and asset lifecycle workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-family: h