Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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.

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 Platform team and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high‑quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product.

About

The Role

• Design and implement scalable platform features

• Author software functional specifications and design documents

• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including delivered quality

• Design and implement 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

• Work with Java, Golang, and Python; systems built on Docker, Kubernetes, Mongo

DB, Timescale

DB, and GCP (Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud Composer, AI Platform)

About You

• 4‑6 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and services in Java or similar languages

• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus

• 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

• Proficient in software development using CICD pipelines and Git

• Working knowledge of SQL/No

SQL and database technologies

• Experience in SaaS platform development with scale

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Work Location

Mountain View, CA – Hybrid

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive salary (anticipated base salary range: $145,000 to $182,000 annually)

• Equity and benefits may be included

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• 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

• Recharge & Reset Program

• Monthly internet reimbursement

Commuter benefits

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Pay transparency: $145,000—$182,000 USD.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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