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Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (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, ServiceNow, 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 DevOps 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.

Position Summary

This role comes under the AppSec Platform charter, focused on designing and developing a multi cloud, portable, OSS backed, streaming first data platform for powering API observability & security products. Additionally the team is also responsible for common services in the authentication & authorization space.

The platform serves as the core-pillar for customer facing Analytics module & supports various product modules like Catalog, Run-time Protection, Application Security Testing as well.

About the Role

  • You will contribute to the development of scalable and highly available data platform systems. 
  • You would solve deep problems around performance, scalability, cost for data systems. 
  • You would help scaling and operationalising data systems working closely with SRE teams. 
  • You would be building these platforms and systems that will be used by other product engineering teams.

About You

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • 3-6 years of backend engineering experience, with strong focus on data platforms.
  • Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
  • Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin).
  • Mandatory - Good understanding of distributed storage & compute technologies in the Datalake/Lakehouse space - like Iceberg, Delta, Trino, StarRocks, Spark.
  • Preferred - Understanding of MPP/OLAP DBs like Pinot or Druid. Understanding of streaming technologies like Flink, Kafka Streams or Spark Streaming.

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

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

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