Software Architect

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

We are building a Unified Data Platform to serve 20+ product modules, enabling ingestion, processing, and retrieval of data to power analytics, machine learning & various intelligent systems at scale. This person will be cross-functionally involved in various initiatives to modernize or scale the data-platform catering to different product modules.

About the Role

• You will lead the design, architecture & development of the Unified Data platform.
• You will be working closely with senior engineering leaders, mentor senior/junior engineers, problem solve with product teams & work with customer success teams.
• You will actively participate in building MVPs and POCs in various areas around data ingestion(streaming/batch), transformation or analytics.
• Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents
• Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies.
• 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

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of hands-on software(backend) development experience - most of which should be in the data platform space involving distributed systems & microservices.
• Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices for handling ingestion & analytics.
• Deep exposure to both batch (spark) & stream processing (Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams).
• Deep exposure to Datalake storage backed by S3, GCS or NFS.
• Deep exposure to OLAP data-stores like Pinot, Druid, Clickhouse
• Must have worked with open source technologies in the data platform space
• Familiarity with document datastores such as MongoDB
• Familiarity with RDS like postgress, mysql.
• Exposure to scaling and operating production data systems at 10K+ qps
• Deep exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin 
• Experience in building custom DSL based ingestion or query abstractions.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes infra & deployment, observability & alerting.
• Open-source contributions to major Apache projects in the data space(e.g. Apache Spark or Kafka) is a big plus.

Work Location

• Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week. 

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
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

• Harness AI Tackles Software Development's Real Bottleneck
• After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
• Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags , as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing

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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