Principal Engineer SEI
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30+ days ago
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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
Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI) is where engineering meets engineering intelligence. As part of this team youll work on a deeply technical product that connects to 40 developer tools like Jira and GitHub processes millions of events and turns raw SDLC data into actionable metrics.
This is a product that engineers build for engineers where youll see your work directly impact how thousands of developers build software. Expect challenges in data modeling systems design developer UX and secure cloud integrations all to help engineers and leaders build faster better and smarter.
About the role
- Design develop deploy and maintain critical software in a fast-paced quality quality-conscious Java environment.
- Author software functional specifications and design documents for features developed.
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system including the delivered quality
- Work in an agile environment using iterative development cycles and a short customer feedback loop
- Design and implementation of scalable backend software solutions
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment.
- Perform peer reviews of specifications design and code
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system including the delivered quality
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues
- We work in Java Golang. Our systems are built on top of Docker Kubenetes PostgresGCP - Stackdriver GCS Cloud composer AI Platform
ABOUT YOU
- 12 years of experience developing highly scalable distributed applications products and backend services using Java and Golang
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL PostgreSQL
- Experience with SQL query tuning performance optimizations is a plus
- Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch SOLR is a plus
- Experience with applications hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus
- Experience mentoring other engineers and leading cross team technical discussions is a plus.
- Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus
- Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
- Experience working in short release cycles
- 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:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Design
- Academics
- AutoCAD 3D
- Cafe
- Fabrication
- Java
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
