Senior Software Engineer

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

Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI) is where engineering meets engineering intelligence. As part of this team, you'll 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 you'll 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 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

ABOUT YOU

• 3-6 years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java
• 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
• 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

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:

• Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
• Welcome Split
• SF Business Times Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
• Forbes America's Best Startup Employers
• SF Business Times Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
• Fast Co Best Workplaces for Innovators

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 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  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.

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