Principal Software Engineer

Harness is an AI Software Delivery Platform company that helps teams manage software delivery through AI, automation, security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. The Principal Software Engineer will design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable Java backend software for the Software Engineering Insights product, while contributing to system design, troubleshooting, code reviews, and production operations.

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:

• 12+ 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
• A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is 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