Staff Software Engineer - AST
Harness
About You
We are looking for a Staff Backend engineer for our Application Security Testing team with a strong understanding of Java, microservices, and large scale distributed systems. You should be self-motivated and should be able to lead complex technical projects. We value developers who are eager to take on challenging tasks, can iterate quickly and incorporate feedback while ensuring the code quality is not sacrificed at any cost.
Application security testing team is one of the major revenue contributors in AppSec org and growing at a very past pace both in terms of customers & revenue which in turn demand scaling engineering services and 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, Kubenetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, Postgres,GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform
ABOUT YOU
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- 5-10 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang
- Designing/developing REST and GRPC 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
- Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
- Experience mentoring other engineers and leading cross team technical discussions is a plus
- Experience working with AI and security products is a plus
- B.Tech. / B.E. / MTech. / M.S. in Computer Science
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.
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