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

Harness is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team, focusing on building and scaling core software services that power our cutting-edge Software Delivery products. This role offers the opportunity to work on highly impactful projects, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency across our platform. If you’re passionate about solving complex engineering challenges and driving innovation in a collaborative environment. Interested? We’d love to hear from you.

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
Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies
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

3-5 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, and GraphQL APIs
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 - 3 days / week

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

Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position also includes equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency

$165,000—$185,000 USD

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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.

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