Staff Software Engineer - AR

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, develops and maintain critical software of scalable platform in fast paced environment
• Authors software functional specifications and design documents
• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
• Establishes the best practices in area of quality, performance & architecture inside the team
• Mentors Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers and provide technical leadership to them
• Performs peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
• Identifies the technical debt & scaling issues in the basecode and drives the improvement
• Works alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
• We work in Java, Golang, and Python. Our systems are built on top of Docker, Kubenetes, MongoDB, TimescaleDB, Postgres,GCP - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform

ABOUT YOU

• A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
• 7-11 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang
• Designing/developing REST and GRPC APIs
• Working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
• Experience in SAAS platform development with scale
• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and leading cross team technical discussions is a plus
• 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 Harness

• 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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