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Staff Software Engineer - OpenTofu

Harness

Harness

Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 4, 2025
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.

OpenTofu is an Open Source infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to provision and manage all of your infrastructure throughout its lifecycle.

OpenTofu's development is community-based, it’s governance is rooted in community involvement. Pull requests are evaluated and accepted based on their merit and value to the community, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment where developers can confidently contribute and use the tool.

The role is a full-time Harness role. The successful candidate will be dedicated to working as part of the wider OpenTofu team external to the Harness company.

This is an opportunity to join a truly Opensource product at the forefront of the evolution of Infrastructure as code.

About the role

Work collaboratively with the open source community to design and implement innovative new features at the frontier of devops tooling.

Help maintain and improve the quality of our codebase, infrastructure, and documentation.

Review and provide feedback on pull requests from the community and team member.

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 loo.p

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

You have 7+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services, with strong Golang experience.

Has extensive Terraform experience. You have directly authored plenty of Terraform modules, you've operated Terraform in prod and can speak from your years of experience, and you're excited to use OpenTofu.

Has a passion for DevOps best practices. You're passionate about the best way to run modern cloud infrastructure in a secure, convenient, and enjoyable way.

Ability to self-motivate and manage workload.

Strong communication - is essential when working with the virtual OpenTofu team and with the broader OpenTofu Community.

Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

Experience working in short-release cycle.

Work Location

Bangalore

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

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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 @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.