Senior / Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Posted 8 Days Ago
Mountain View, CA
175K-215K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software
Harness is the AI-native software delivery platform company.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Harness, you will architect, design, and develop high-quality software to improve the software delivery experience. This role requires building critical software, owning significant parts of the system, and collaborating to troubleshoot production issues in a high-growth startup environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

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. We’re 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 is an amazing opportunity to be an engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup and to work on redefining the Continuous Delivery space powered by AI/ ML.  In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that directly impacts the company's product experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain critical software in a fast-paced quality conscious environment
  • Author software functional specifications and design documents
  • Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
  • Design and implementation high scale, distributed systems
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
  • Perform peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
  • Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross-functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance-related issues

About You

  • 5-7+ years of Java experience designing, developing, and debugging complex code
  • Strong background in data structures and algorithms
  • BS in CS or equivalent. Advanced degree is a plus
  • Experience in as many of the following areas
  • Building containerized applications (Docker)
  • Building applications in a Micro Services Architecture
  • Working with Networking and Security protocols (HTTPS, SSL, Certs)
  • Designing/developing REST, GRPC
  • Using MongoDB, including indexing and query optimization
  • Working with platforms and tools like AppD, Stackdriver, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenShift
  • Knowledge of Golang is a plus

Work Location

  • Mountain View, CA - Hybrid

What You Will Have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
  • Recharge & Reset Program
  • Monthly internet reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $165,000.00 - $185,000.00 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers. 

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Pay transparency

$175,000$215,000 USD

Harness in the news:
  • Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
  • Welcome Split!
  • Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022
  • Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From
  • #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list
  • #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For
  • #47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For
  • #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers
  • 2021 Career Launching Companies List

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

Top Skills

Go
Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
900 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Harness is a leader in AI-native software delivery, dedicated to empowering developers and engineering teams worldwide. We revolutionize how software is built, tested, deployed, and optimized by driving efficiency, reliability, and speed throughout the software development lifecycle. At Harness, we envision a world where developers focus on innovation, free from repetitive tasks, supported by tools that streamline every step.

Our platform leverages AI and automation across all key pillars of software delivery: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags and Experimentation, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing, and more. By automating traditionally manual processes that slow down engineering teams, Harness enables organizations to release software faster, reduce errors, and optimize costs—all while enhancing the developer experience and flexibility.

Harness is transforming software delivery on a global scale. As a pioneer in AI-driven automation, we streamline complex development processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and empower developers to innovate freely. Our mission is ambitious: enabling millions of developers to deliver code faster, more reliably, and with greater ease than ever before.

Why Work With Us

Harness is built on a culture of growth, collaboration, and transparency, where team members are encouraged to push boundaries and solve meaningful challenges. We invest in personal and professional development, value work-life balance, and foster a supportive environment—making Harness an ideal place to make a real impact in tech.

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