Staff Software Engineer Platform Foundations

Mountain View, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures Citi Ventures and more. As AI accelerates code creation the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code testing deployments application security reliability compliance and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year Harness powered over 185M deployments 82M builds 18T flag evaluations 8M security scans 9.1B optimized tests 3T protected API calls and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend enabling customers like United Airlines Morningstar and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75% reduce cloud costs by up to 60% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems microservices architecture and cloud-native backend engineering. This role requires strong operational excellence ensuring system reliability scalability and observability while driving best practices in incident management performance tuning and automation.

Key Responsibilities

System Architecture & Scalability

Design & Build: Architect and develop scalable fault-tolerant backend systems that handle millions of requests per second.
Microservices Development: Implement microservices using Go Java or Python ensuring high availability and resilience.
Cloud & Kubernetes: Deploy and manage applications on AWS GCP or Azure with Kubernetes (EKS GKE AKS).
Event-Driven Architectures: Work with Kafka Pulsar RabbitMQ for distributed messaging and streaming workloads.

Operational Excellence & Incident Management

Reliability & Resilience: Implement best practices for graceful degradation retries circuit breakers and auto-scaling.
Incident Response & On-Call Management: Define SLAs/SLIs/SLOs set up robust alerting & escalation processes for incident handling.
Postmortems & RCA (Root Cause Analysis): Lead post-incident analysis drive corrective actions and improve system reliability.
Observability & Monitoring: Define and implement logging monitoring and distributed tracing using Prometheus OpenTelemetry Grafana Datadog.

Performance Optimization & Security

Performance Tuning: Diagnose and optimize latency throughput and memory utilization for large-scale distributed systems.
Multithreading & Concurrency: Design and implement highly concurrent multithreaded backend services for parallel processing.
Database & Storage Optimization: Improve performance of SQL (PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra DynamoDB Redis MongoDB) solutions.
Security & Compliance: Implement API security authentication authorization and ensure compliance with SOC2 ISO 27001 PCI DSS.

Leadership & Collaboration

Mentorship & Code Reviews: Guide engineers in best practices for platform engineering microservices and distributed systems.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with cloud engineering security and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.

About You

10 -14 years of experience in backend platform engineering distributed systems and microservices.
Strong programming expertise in Go Java or Python with a focus on multithreading and concurrency.
Expertise in Kubernetes service meshes (Istio Linkerd) and cloud infrastructure.
Deep understanding of gRPC REST APIs GraphQL and API performance tuning.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation (Terraform Pulumi).
Proven ability to manage production incidents and other operatonal excellence practices.
Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills in complex distributed environments.

Location

US - Remote

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

Pay transparency

$181000$226000 USD

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:

Staff IC