Staff Software Engineer - Backend, Database Delivery
Harness: AI-Native Software Delivery Platform
Position Summary
We are embarking on a journey to revolutionize database management and deployment processes. We're seeking a Technical Lead with deep expertise in building and maintaining early Database, CI/CD, or DevOps products. This team will address the complexities enterprises face with database change management and integrate database changes into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring seamless, automated, and version-controlled database migrations. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of database devops. Your technical expertise, combined with your ability to foster cross-functional partnerships, will be key to delivering a product that accelerates deployment, reduces errors, and maintains the integrity of database environments across multiple platforms.
Come join us to be a part of an early product journey with broad impact in the developer tooling space.
About the Role
- Develop a highly scalable, distributed product in Java and Golang
- Develop devops features for managing databases
- Work on a product launch from 0 to 1 while designing, developing, and maintaining critical software in a fast-paced quality conscious environment.
- Author software specifications and design documents
- support multiple OSS technologies including but not limited to Flyway, DBDeploy, and/or Liquibase.
- Work in an agile environment, using iterative development cycles and a short customer feedback loop.
- Work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
- Design and implementation of scalable algorithms
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
- Perform peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
About You
- Experience in database management
- Familiarity with open source database management codebases (including but not limited to Liquibase, Flyway, or DBDeploy).
- Being a past code contributor to 1 or more such tools is a strong plus.
- Expertise in building and maintaining with CI/CD or DevOps products
- Experience with Java and GoLang.
- 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
- Formal Computer Science education or equivalent experience
Work Location
The successful candidate will be required to be onsite in Mountain View, CA, 3 days per week
What You Will Have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
- Recharge & Reset Program
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $185,000 - $226,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.
A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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