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Harness

Principal Software Engineer

Harness, Mountain View, California, us, 94039

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Overview

Direct message the job poster from Harness 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

Software Engineering Insights (SEI)

is where engineering meets engineering intelligence. As part of this team, you’ll work on a deeply technical product that connects to 40+ developer tools like Jira and GitHub, processes millions of events, and turns raw SDLC data into actionable metrics. This is a product that engineers build for engineers, where you’ll see your work directly impact how thousands of developers build software. Expect challenges in data modeling, systems design, developer UX, and secure cloud integrations — all to help engineers and leaders build faster, better, and smarter. About The Role

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 loop. 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. Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues. About You

10+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java. A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users. Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL. Experience with SQL query tuning, performance optimizations is a plus. Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch, SOLR is a plus. Experience with applications hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus. Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus. Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed. Excellent problem solving and debugging skills. Experience working in short release cycles. Ready to Build Something Engineers Love. This is your chance to shape the systems that shape how software gets built. Join Harness today! Work Location

Bay Area or Remote in the U.S. with periodic travel required What You Will Have At Harness

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events Monthly internet reimbursement Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Harness by 2x Software Engineer, Full-Stack Opening, USA

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