Principal Software Engineer

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Position Summary

This is an incredible opportunity to join a high-growth, high-impact startup as an engineer on the team building Artifact Registry—a foundational component of our software delivery platform. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and scaling a highly available, reliable, and performant system that developers depend on daily.

Artifact Registry functions like a file system at the heart of modern CI/CD workflows and must operate with near-zero downtime and high throughput across globally distributed environments. Engineers on this team tackle complex challenges in distributed systems, storage optimization, multi-region replication, and security at scale. We're building the next-generation, AI-powered, secure artifact management platform—making this a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure that drives software delivery for thousands of organizations. You'll join a team of highly motivated, passionate engineers, committed to excellence, innovation, and impact.

About the role

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain critical software in a fast-paced quality 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
• We work in Java, Golang. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubenetes, Postgres,GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

ABOUT YOU

• 8-10+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java and Golang
• A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
• Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL
• 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
• Experience mentoring other engineers and leading cross team technical discussions is a plus.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Experience working in short release cycles
• Experience working with AI and security products is a plus
• B.Tech. / B.E. / MTech. / M.S. in Computer Science

What you will have at Harnessf

• Experience building a transformative product
• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

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