Staff Software Engineer
Harness: AI-Native Software Delivery Platform
Position Summary
This is an amazing opportunity to be a Staff Engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will be part of the Security Product Development Team and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience and growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develops and maintain critical software of scalable platform in fast paced environment
- Authors software functional specifications and design documents
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
- Establishes the best practices in area of quality, performance & architecture inside the team
- Mentors Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers and provide technical leadership to them
- Performs peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
- Identifies the technical debt & scaling issues in the basecode and drives the improvement
- Works 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, ELK, TimescaleDB, GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform
About You
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- 7-11 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang
- Designing/developing REST, GRPC and GraphQL APIs
- Working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
- Experience in SAAS platform development with scale
- Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
- B.Tech. / B.E. / MTech. / M.S. in Computer Science
Work Location
- Bangalore
What You Will Have at Harness
- Experience building a transformative product
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefit
- Flexible work schedule
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
Harness in the news:
- Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
- Welcome Split!
- SF Business Times - 2024 - 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
- Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
- SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
- Fast Co - 2024 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers
We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.
Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.
If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.