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Staff Software Engineer

Harness

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Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. 

Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. 

With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness Supply Chain Security (SCS) module protects every stage of the software delivery lifecycle by securing builds, artifacts, and dependencies from source to deployment. It provides end-to-end visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time risk detection to help engineering teams ensure software integrity, prevent tampering, and comply with evolving supply chain security standards.As part of this team, you’ll work on a fast-growing product that integrates with the broader Harness platform to unify software delivery and developer tooling under one seamless experience. This is a high-impact team solving real pain points for modern DevOps and platform engineering teams.

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
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
  • Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
  • Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience

Joining the SCS team means you’ll work on a high-impact product at the heart of modern DevOps, solving complex engineering challenges at scale. You'll be surrounded by passionate technologists, move fast, and see your work directly improve the lives of developers around the world—all while growing your career in one of the most ambitious engineering environments in the industry.

Work Location

Mountain View, CA

What You Will Have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
  • Recharge & Reset Program
  • Monthly internet reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits


Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills, experience, qualifications, location, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.The Hiring Range For This Position Is $150,000 - $226,000.

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Pay transparency
$150,000—$226,000 USD

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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 security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

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