Job Description

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry's leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30-40% of the engineering lifecycle -- the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.



The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery -- and we're looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.


Harrness is a high-growth startup 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, 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 recently closed $230 million in new financing at a valuation of $3.7 billion, more than doubling its valuation since its last financing round in January 2021. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series D round, with new investors J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Splunk Ventures, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners and all existing investors participating, including ServiceNow, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, Battery Ventures, Alkeon Capital, GV (formerly Google 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. In this role, you will be part of the CI product and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product Experience.

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

ABOUT YOU

A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users 3-6 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus. Experience in Golang, GCP, postgres, strong computer science fundamentals, system knowledge, distributed computing experience etc. Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment B Tech degree in CS or equivalent

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