Cloud Security Engineer

About Glean:

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.

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.

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.

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.

About the Role:

Glean is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Security Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in architecting and securing the cloud infrastructure of our organization, with a focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. You will be responsible for identifying security gaps, designing solutions, and utilizing cloud-native technologies to enhance our security posture. Additionally, you will be expected to develop security-specific features related to authentication, authorization, and audit logging (AAA), and contribute to the overall security strategy of the organization.

You will:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and architect secure cloud infrastructure solutions on AWS and Azure.

• Identify potential security vulnerabilities and gaps in existing infrastructure and propose remediation plans.

• Implement cloud-native security technologies and best practices to address identified gaps.

• Analyze security logs and metrics to proactively detect and respond to security incidents.

• Develop and deploy security controls, such as identity and access management (IAM), network security policies, and encryption mechanisms.

• Leverage software engineering skills to create security-specific features, particularly in the areas of authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.

• Create documentation and train and guide team members and other stakeholders on security best practices.

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

• Strong software engineering skills, with proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java).

• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS of Azure, and a willingness to become proficient in both.

• Familiarity with cloud-native security tools and services (e.g., AWS IAM, GCP Identity and Access Management, VPC security).

• Knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols and technologies (e.g., OAuth, OpenID Connect).

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment - being a team player and willing to take on whatever is most impactful for the company is a must

• A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features

• Good coding skills (for example in Go/Python/Java/C++ etc)

• Familiarity with cloud native development practices in AWS/Azure is a plus

Location:

• This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office)

Compensation & Benefits:

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 are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

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