Staff Software Engineer

Harness•Mountain View, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale. The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. Position Summary Harness Supply Chain Security (SCS) module protects every stage of the software delivery lifecycle by securing builds, artifacts, and dependencies from source to deployment. It provides end-to-end visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time risk detection to help engineering teams ensure software integrity, prevent tampering, and comply with evolving supply chain security standards.As part of this team, you’ll work on a fast-growing product that integrates with the broader Harness platform to unify software delivery and developer tooling under one seamless experience. This is a high-impact team solving real pain points for modern DevOps and platform engineering teams. About The Role 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 Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus. Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience Joining the SCS team means you’ll work on a high-impact product at the heart of modern DevOps, solving complex engineering challenges at scale. You'll be surrounded by passionate technologists, move fast, and see your work directly improve the lives of developers around the world—all while growing your career in one of the most ambitious engineering environments in the industry. Work Location Mountain View, CA 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 Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills, experience, qualifications, location, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.

Requirements

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
Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience

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