Harness · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform(Data Ingestion)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expHarness is an industry leader in AI-powered software delivery platforms, enabling teams to build, test, and deliver software efficiently. The Staff Software Engineer will focus on designing and developing a high-scale ingestion platform to support analytics and systems at scale, collaborating with various teams to facilitate onboarding and solving complex data challenges.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer ToolsDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Collaborate with principal engineers and architects on the design, architecture, and development of this platform
This will involve solving complex challenges related to data streaming, transformation, and managing extremely large-scale data storage
Collaborate closely with various product engineering teams, offering guidance to facilitate their onboarding onto the data platform
Author high level & low level design documents
Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies
Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science
Minimum 7-12 years of hands-on experience in backend software development, primarily within the data platform domain and with a focus on distributed systems
Hands on experience building ETL pipelines with technologies like SQLMesh, DBT, or Spark Structured Streaming
Hands-on experience with query engines like Trino
Deep exposure to OLAP stores like Pinot, Druid, Clickhouse, StarRocks, Snowflake, or Databricks
Working experience with open table architecture such as Iceberg, Delta Lake or Hudi
Experience with data streaming technologies like Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams etc
Familiarity with OLTP datastores such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Experience scaling and operating production data systems at 10K+ QPS
Deep working experience with Java and Python
Benefits
Competitive salary
Comprehensive healthcare benefit
Flexible work schedule
Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
Monthly internet reimbursement
Company
Harness
Harness provides a software delivery platform that helps engineering teams build, deploy, and operate applications through a set of tools.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (31)
2024 (22)
2023 (10)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$775MKey Investors
Goldman SachsSilicon Valley BankNorwest
2025-12-11Series E· $200M
2025-12-11Secondary Market
2024-05-14Debt Financing· $150M
Leadership Team
Jyoti Bansal
CEO & Co-Founder
Ravitej Yadalam
Senior Director of Product Management
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