Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Posted 21 Days Ago
Mountain View, CA
165K-185K Annually
3-5 Years Experience
Cloud • Enterprise Web • Machine Learning • Software
Harness increases the velocity of software deployment.
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Harness will design, develop, and maintain critical software in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include architecting and delivering high-quality software that impacts the product experience.
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.

About the role

  • 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

  • 4+ 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 Go is a plus
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

$165,000$185,000 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.

Top Skills

Java
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
452 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Based in San Francisco, Harness is the industry’s first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and redu

Why Work With Us

Customers love the product. We believe in results, not silos and politics. We’re growing like wildfire. Overall, Harness is an awesome place to either start your career — or take it to the next level.

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