Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

We're on the lookout for a dynamic and driven software engineer to play a critical role within our Platform engineering organization. Come join a team that has been defining the next generation in rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.

The Harness Platform team is responsible for building and managing the core components that power all of our modules, such as CI/CD, STO, etc. These core services ensure secure and scalable operation for all our modules, including Account Management, Authentication, Authorization, Audit, Notifications, and Secret Management. Additionally, we build the Harness delegates/agents and deploy them onto customer infrastructure. The platform team is also responsible for setting up our internal deployment infrastructure, such as multi-cluster setup and common libraries for Redis/Mongo, Kafka. We oversee the platform-wide observability efforts. Finally, the platform data team helps us power in-product analytics and Business Intelligence by building ETL pipelines, query engines, and dashboards.

Here, your skills and insight will be the driving force behind cutting-edge software products that aim to solve modern software problems. Your ideas will be valued, and your contributions will have a lasting impact on the global software community. If you're passionate about software delivery, and if you're ready to be part of a team that's redefining the boundaries of what's possible, seize this opportunity to shape the future with Harness.

About the role

This role is primarily focused on the core services and Harness delegates. We are currently building the next generation of Delegates, Authentication, and Access Control services. For this, we are looking for a passionate engineer to help build and scale these components.

You will be responsible for architecting the next generation of these services, mentoring junior engineers, and developing high-quality software that forms the core part of the Harness platform.

• Design, develop, and maintain critical software in a fast-paced quality conscious environment

• Author software functional specifications and design documents

• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system

• Design and implementation of scalable algorithms

• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment

• Perform peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code

• Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues

• Harness' environment is Java / Golang and related modern technologies

About you

• Extensive experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Golang or Java (~4+ years)

• A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users

• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed

• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills

• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles

• Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment

• Computer Science degree or equivalent experience required

• Advanced degree is a plus

Work Location

Mountain View, California. Harness follows a hybrid, in-office schedule - 3 days per week.

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Flexible work schedule

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

Pay transparency

$145,000-$190,000 USD

Harness in the news:

• Harness Snags $230 Series D - $3.7B Valuation

• Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022

• Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From

• #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list

• #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For

• #47 on LinkedIn' Top 50 Companies to Work For

• #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers

• 2021 Career Launching Companies List

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.