Principal Software Engineer

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 Git Hub, 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.

• 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, Dev Ops and cross‑functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues.

• 12+ 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, Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience with SQL query tuning and performance optimizations (plus).
• Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch, SOLR (plus).
• Experience with applications hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP (plus).
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes (plus).
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed.
• Excellent problem‑solving and debugging skills.
• Experience working in short release cycles.

Bay Area or Remote in the U.S. with periodic travel required.

• 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 Hiring Range for this position is $150,000 - $226,000. Pay transparency: $204,000 – $255,000 USD.

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.