Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Harness
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to work on building and supporting the feature flag feature for the Harness platform. You will help support our customers through new features, improvements, design and optimizing code for; scalability, speed and stability. Software Engineers at Harness have strong problem solving capabilities, are great team players and have great communication skills. The core technologies that we use include Java, GoLang, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis etc.
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
- 3-5+ years of Java or GoLang 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 GCP, Kubernetes and monitoring tools
- Knowledge of GoLang is a plus
Work Location
- Tandil or remote in Argentina
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Healthcare benefits
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
Harness in the news:
- Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
- Welcome Split!
- SF Business Times - 2024 - 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
- Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
- SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
- Fast Co - 2024 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers
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