Harness · 2 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Platform Foundations
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $226K/yr
10+ years expHarness is an AI-powered software delivery platform founded by Jyoti Bansal. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer with expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native backend engineering to architect scalable systems and ensure operational excellence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer ToolsDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Design & Build: Architect and develop scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems that handle millions of requests per second
Microservices Development: Implement microservices using Go, Java, or Python, ensuring high availability and resilience
Cloud & Kubernetes: Deploy and manage applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS)
Event-Driven Architectures: Work with Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ for distributed messaging and streaming workloads
Reliability & Resilience: Implement best practices for graceful degradation, retries, circuit breakers, and auto-scaling
Incident Response & On-Call Management: Define SLAs/SLIs/SLOs, set up robust alerting & escalation processes for incident handling
Postmortems & RCA (Root Cause Analysis): Lead post-incident analysis, drive corrective actions, and improve system reliability
Observability & Monitoring: Define and implement logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog
Performance Tuning: Diagnose and optimize latency, throughput, and memory utilization for large-scale distributed systems
Multithreading & Concurrency: Design and implement highly concurrent, multithreaded backend services for parallel processing
Database & Storage Optimization: Improve performance of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB) solutions
Security & Compliance: Implement API security, authentication, authorization, and ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS
Mentorship & Code Reviews: Guide engineers in best practices for platform engineering, microservices, and distributed systems
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with cloud engineering, security, and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs
Qualification
Required
10 -14 years of experience in backend platform engineering, distributed systems, and microservices
Strong programming expertise in Go, Java, or Python, with a focus on multithreading and concurrency
Expertise in Kubernetes, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), and cloud infrastructure
Deep understanding of gRPC, REST APIs, GraphQL, and API performance tuning
Hands-on experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Pulumi)
Proven ability to manage production incidents and other operational excellence practices
Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills in complex, distributed environments
Benefits
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
Company
Harness
Harness provides a software delivery platform that helps engineering teams build, deploy, and operate applications through a set of tools.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (10)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$775MKey Investors
Goldman SachsSilicon Valley BankNorwest
2025-12-11Series E· $200M
2025-12-11Secondary Market
2024-05-14Debt Financing· $150M
Leadership Team
Jyoti Bansal
CEO & Co-Founder
Ravitej Yadalam
Senior Director of Product Management
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