Harness · 1 week ago
Staff Software Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$181K/yr - $226K/yr
7+ years expHarness is a leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster and more reliably. The Staff Software Engineer role involves designing, developing, and maintaining critical software for a scalable platform while providing technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer ToolsDevOpsProductivity ToolsSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, develops and maintain critical software of scalable platform in fast paced environment
Authors software functional specifications and design documents
Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
Establishes the best practices in area of quality, performance & architecture inside the team
Mentors Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers and provide technical leadership to them
Performs peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
Identifies the technical debt & scaling issues in the basecode and drives the improvement
Works alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang
Designing/developing REST, GRPC and GraphQL APIs
Working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies
Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
Experience in SAAS platform development with scale
Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience
Preferred
Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus
Benefits
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
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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