Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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

About the role

• Design and implement scalable platform features


• 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 implement scalable algorithms


• 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


• We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

About you

• 4 - 6 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages


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


• Foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills


• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles


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


• Proficient in software development using CICD Pipelines and git.


• Working knowledge of SQL /No-SQL and database technologies


• Experience in SAAS platform development with scale


• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Work Location

\Mountain View, CA - Hybrid

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary


• Comprehensive healthcare benefits


• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)


• Flexible work schedule


• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave


• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events


• Monthly internet reimbursement

Pay transparency

$145,000—$182,000 USD

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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 ( , or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.