Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of App Dynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M 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, Service Now, 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 Dev Ops 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.

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.

• 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 the 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
• We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubernetes, Mongo
  
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• 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
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• Mountain View, CA - Hybrid

• Competitive salary
• 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

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $ - $ annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

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

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