Senior Software Engineer

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

This is an amazing opportunity to be an engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will be part of the Platform team and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product.

About the role

• Design and implement scalable platform features
• Author software functional specifications and design documents
• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
• Design and implement 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
• We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

About you

• 4 - 6 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
• Foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Proficient in software development using CICD Pipelines and git.
• Working knowledge of SQL /No-SQL and database technologies
• Experience in SAAS platform development with scale
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Work Location

Mountain View, CA - Hybrid

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 - $182,000 USD

Harness in the news:

• Harness AI Tackles Software Development’s Real Bottleneck
• After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
• Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing