Staff Software Engineer - Java/Golang (7-11 yrs)

Harness is a high-growth startup 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, 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 recently closed $230 million in new financing at a valuation of $3.7 billion, more than doubling its valuation since its last financing round in January 2021. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series D round, with new investors J.

Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Splunk Ventures, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners and all existing investors participating, including ServiceNow, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, Battery Ventures, Alkeon Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

POSITION SUMMARY :

This is an amazing opportunity to be a Staff Engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup.

In this role, you will be part of the Security Product Development Team and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience and growth.

About the role :

- Design, develops and maintain critical software of scalable platform in fast paced environment.

- Authors software functional specifications and design documents.

- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality.

- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment.

- Establishes the best practices in area of quality, performance & architecture inside the team.

- Mentors Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers and provide technical leadership to them.

- Performs peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code.

- Identifies the technical debt & scaling issues in the basecode and drives the improvement.

- Works alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues.

- We work in Java, Golang, and Python.

- Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, ELK, TimescaleDB, GCP Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform.

ABOUT YOU :

- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users.

- 7-11 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang.

- Designing/developing REST, GRPC and GraphQL APIs.

- Working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies.

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills.

- Experience in SAAS platform development with scale.

- Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles.

- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality.

- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.