<div class="content-intro"><p>Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.</p>
<p>Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. </p>
<p>Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. </p>
<p>With a global team across 26 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Position Summary</strong><strong><br></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer 2 to design, develop, and optimize highly scalable and distributed systems. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Java and Go, along with deep knowledge of distributed computing principles, cloud-native architectures, and scalable backend services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role requires strong operational excellence, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and observability while driving best practices in incident management, performance tuning, and automation. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to build resilient, high-performance applications. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) will be a plus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">System Architecture & Scalability</span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design & Build: Architect and develop scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems that handle millions of requests per second.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Microservices Development: Implement microservices using Go, Java, or Python, ensuring high availability and resilience.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cloud & Kubernetes: Deploy and manage applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Event-Driven Architectures: Work with Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ for distributed </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">messaging and streaming workloads.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop observability, logging, and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Troubleshoot complex issues in high-traffic, production-scale environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentor junior engineers and help define best coding practices, architectural patterns, and system design principles.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Operational Excellence & Incident Management</span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reliability & Resilience: Implement best practices for graceful degradation, retries, circuit breakers, and auto-scaling.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Incident Response & On-Call Management: Define SLAs/SLIs/SLOs, set up robust alerting & escalation processes for incident handling.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Postmortems & RCA (Root Cause Analysis): Lead post-incident analysis, drive corrective actions, and improve system reliability.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Observability & Monitoring: Define and implement logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Performance Optimization & Security</span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Performance Tuning: Diagnose and optimize latency, throughput, and memory utilization for large-scale distributed systems.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Multithreading & Concurrency: Design and implement highly concurrent, multithreaded backend services for parallel processing.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Database & Storage Optimization: Improve performance of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB) solutions.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Security & Compliance: Implement API security, authentication, authorization, and ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Leadership & Collaboration</span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentorship & Code Reviews: Guide engineers in best practices for platform engineering, microservices, and distributed systems.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with cloud engineering, security, and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Key Qualifications</strong></span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">8-12 years of experience in backend platform engineering, distributed systems, and microservices.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong programming expertise in Go, Java, or Python, with a focus on multithreading and concurrency.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Expertise in Kubernetes, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), and cloud infrastructure.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep understanding of gRPC, REST APIs, GraphQL, and API performance tuning.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Pulumi).</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm in cloud environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Solid understanding of networking, API gateways, and authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, gRPC, REST, GraphQL).</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to debug and optimize high-concurrency, low-latency applications.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong problem-solving and analytical skills in complex, distributed environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proven ability to manage production incidents and other operational excellence practices.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Location</span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This role will be out of our Bangalore, India office.</span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What You Will Have At Harness</span></strong></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building a transformative product</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">End-to-end ownership of your projects</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Competitive salary</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Comprehensive healthcare benefit</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Flexible work schedule</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paid Time Off and Parental Leave</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Monthly internet reimbursement</span></li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><h3>Harness in the news:</h3>
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<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><a href="https://www.harness.io/blog/240m-financing-to-bring-ai-to-everything-after-code">Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code</a></li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/harness-is-worth-5point5-billion-in-round-led-by-goldman-sachs.html">Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation</a></li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOYXKAyAqs">How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal</a></li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><a href="https://www.digit.fyi/ai-visibility-crisis-fuelling-security-nightmare/">Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare</a></li>
<li data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><a href="https://www.harness.io/blog/we-made-inc-s-2025-power-partners-list-again---heres-why-it-matters">Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success</a></li>
</ul>
<p>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.<br><br></p>
<p><strong>Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers</strong></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="mailto:security@harness.io">security@harness.io</a>. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (<a href="https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams)">https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams)</a>, or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.</p>
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