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

This is an amazing opportunity to be an engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup and to work on redefining the Continuous Integration (CI) space powered by AI/ ML. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing and delivering high quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience. The Harness Continuous Integration team is creating a modern cloud native, developer friendly and extensible CI platform.

The CI team is an open and collaborative group of highly talented engineers who are welcoming and engaging

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 of scalable algorithms
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
We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubenetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

About you

5+ years of experience in Java and/ or 3+ years of experience in Golang 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 (K8S/ 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
Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization and Data Minings.

Work Location

Mountain View, CA - Hybrid (3x / week onsite)

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

Pay transparency

$150,000—$175,000 USD

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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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