Senior Software Engineer AST
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
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 industrys leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build test and deliver software faster safer and more reliably. Writing code is only 3040% 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 inCI/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 were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
About You
We are looking for a Senior Software Backend engineer for our Application Security Testing team with a strong understanding of Java/Python microservices and large scale distributed systems. You should be self-motivated and should be able to lead complex technical projects. We value developers who are eager to take on challenging tasks can iterate quickly and incorporate feedback while ensuring the code quality is not sacrificed at any cost.
Application security testing team is one of the major revenue contributors in AppSec org and growing at a very past pace both in terms of customers & revenue which in turn demand scaling engineering services and 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 Kubenetes MongoDB TimescaleDB PostgresGCP - Stackdriver GCS Cloud composer AI Platform
ABOUT YOU
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- 4-6 years experience developing highly scalable distributed applications products and services in Java and Golang
- Designing/developing REST and GRPC 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.
- Experience mentoring other engineers and leading cross team technical discussions is a plus
- Experience working with AI and security products is a plus
- . / B.E. / MTech. / M.S. in Computer Science
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
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
Harness in the news:
- Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
- Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
- How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
- Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
- Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
