Staff Software Engineer Platform Foundations

Mountain View, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $240M 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.

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