Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform

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.

About You

We are looking for a Data Platform engineer with a strong understanding of Java, microservices, and massively large scale distributed systems. You are self-driven and eager to take on technically challenging problems. You have a growth mindset and enjoy learning while delivering impact.

About Role

You will contribute to the design and development of scalable and highly available data platform systems, working closely with senior engineers and SRE teams. You would solve deep problems around performance, scalability 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science
• 3 - 6 years of hands-on software development experience
• Solid experience working with modern data systems like Kafka, real-time streaming (Kafka Streams, Flink, etc.)
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Exposure to scaling and operating production data systems
• Experience with OLAP systems like Apache Pinot, Druid is a plus
• Experience with open-source contributions in the data space is a plus

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