Staff Software Engineer Data Platform(Data Activation & Analytics)
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Posted on:
04-09-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary :
We are building a unified data platform to serve 20 product modules enabling ingestion processing and retrieval of data to power analytics & systems at scale. This role is part of theData Activation & Analytics charter under the Unified Data Platform umbrella focused on designing and developing a self-serve analytics platform with semantic & modelling layer DSL based query layer & analytics backwards materialization layer. The platform will support both custom dashboards that product teams can build on their own & also ready-to-embed analytics modules.
About the Role
- You will participate in the design architecture & development of this platform alongside principal engineers & architects solving deep problems in DSL based query expressions sub-second read latency multi-tenancy high concurrency OLAP modelling and secure data access.
- You will mentor senior/junior engineers in the form of peer reviews(code/design) or complex debugging.
- Author high level & low level design documents.
- Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm terraform and similar technologies.
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
About You
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 6-9 years of backend engineering experience with strong focus on data platforms and analytics systems.
- Proven expertise in building low-latency highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
- Deep knowledge of fact/dimensional modelling in data lakes/warehouses.
- Strong understanding of OLAP workloads and hands-on experience with MPP/OLAP datastores such as StarRocks Apache Pinot or Apache Druid.
- Good understanding of OLAP/MPP DB internals(infra performance scale).
- Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java Scala Kotlin).
- Experience in building DSL-based query services is preferred.
- Experience in building ETL for powering analytics is preferred.
Work Location
- Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week.
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
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
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