Staff Software Engineer

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company focused on helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance across the software delivery lifecycle. The Staff Software Engineer will work on Software Engineering Insights, building scalable backend systems that connect to developer tools, process large volumes of SDLC data, and turn it into actionable metrics for engineers and leaders.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
• Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues

Requirements:

• • 8-10+ 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, PostgreSQL
• • 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
• • Experience with SQL query tuning, performance optimizations is a plus
• • Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch, SOLR is a plus
• • Experience with applications hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus
• • Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus