Staff Software Engineer - Backend

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 and to work on redefining the Continuous Integration (CI) space powered by AI/ ML.  In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing and delivering high quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience.  The Harness Continuous Integration team is creating a modern cloud native, developer friendly and extensible CI platform.

The CI team is an open and collaborative group of highly talented engineers who are welcoming and engaging

Key Responsibilities

• 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, including the delivered quality
• 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
• We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubenetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

About You

• 5-7+ years of experience in Java and/ or 2-3+ years of experience in Golang designing, developing, and debugging complex code
• Strong background in data structures and algorithms
• BS in CS or equivalent. Advanced degree is a plus
• Experience in as many of the following areas
• Building containerized applications (K8S/ Docker)
• Building applications in a Micro Services Architecture
• Working with Networking and Security protocols (HTTPS, SSL, Certs)
• Designing/developing REST, GRPC, and GraphQL APIs
• Using MongoDB, including indexing and query optimization
• Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization and Data Minings.

Work Location

• Mountain View, CA - Hybrid (3x / week onsite) 

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

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $175,000.00 - $215,000.00 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

Pay transparency$175,000—$225,000 USD

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.