Senior Software Engineer Data Platform(AppSec)

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 01-11-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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. Were 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 role comes under the AppSec Platform charter focused on designing and developing a multi cloud portable OSS backed streaming first data platform for powering API observability & security products. Additionally the team is also responsible for common services in the authentication & authorization space.

The platform serves as the core-pillar for customer facing Analytics module & supports various product modules like Catalog Run-time Protection Application Security Testing as well.

About the Role

You will contribute to the development of scalable and highly available data platform systems.
You would solve deep problems around performance scalability cost for data systems.
You would help scaling and operationalising data systems working closely with SRE teams.
You would be building these platforms and systems that will be used by other product engineering teams.

About You

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
3-6 years of backend engineering experience with strong focus on data platforms.
Proven expertise in building low-latency highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java Scala Kotlin).
Mandatory - Good understanding of distributed storage & compute technologies in the Datalake/Lakehouse space - like Iceberg Delta Trino StarRocks Spark.
Preferred - Understanding of MPP/OLAP DBs like Pinot or Druid. Understanding of streaming technologies like Flink Kafka Streams or Spark Streaming.

Harness in the news:

Harness AI Tackles Software Developments Real Bottleneck
After Vibe Coding Comes Vibe Testing (Almost)
Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
Jyoti Bansal Harness theCUBEd Awards
Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
Harness snags as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

The platform serves as the core-pillar for customer facing Analytics module & supports various product modules like Catalog Run-time Protection Application Security Testing as well.

About the Role

You will contribute to the development of scalable and highly available data platform systems.
You would solve deep problems around performance scalability cost for data systems.
You would help scaling and operationalising data systems working closely with SRE teams.
You would be building these platforms and systems that will be used by other product engineering teams.

About You

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
3-6 years of backend engineering experience with strong focus on data platforms.
Proven expertise in building low-latency highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java Scala Kotlin).
Mandatory - Good understanding of distributed storage & compute technologies in the Datalake/Lakehouse space - like Iceberg Delta Trino StarRocks Spark.
Preferred - Understanding of MPP/OLAP DBs like Pinot or Druid. Understanding of streaming technologies like Flink Kafka Streams or Spark Streaming.