Staff Software Engineer

About the role

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness Supply Chain Security (SCS) module protects every stage of the software delivery lifecycle by securing builds, artifacts, and dependencies from source to deployment. It provides end-to-end visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time risk detection to help engineering teams ensure software integrity, prevent tampering, and comply with evolving supply chain security standards.As part of this team, you’ll work on a fast-growing product that integrates with the broader Harness platform to unify software delivery and developer tooling under one seamless experience. This is a high-impact team solving real pain points for modern DevOps and platform engineering teams.

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, Kubernetes, MongoDB, ELK, TimescaleDB, 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, GRPC and GraphQL 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

Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality

Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus.

Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience

Joining the SCS team means you’ll work on a high-impact product at the heart of modern DevOps, solving complex engineering challenges at scale. You'll be surrounded by passionate technologists, move fast, and see your work directly improve the lives of developers around the world—all while growing your career in one of the most ambitious engineering environments in the industry.

Work Location

Mountain View, CA

What You Will Have at Harness

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events

Recharge & Reset Program

Monthly internet reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills, experience, qualifications, location, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.The Hiring Range For This Position Is $150,000 - $226,000 .

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required

Pay transparency
$150,000 $226,000 USD

Harness in the news:

Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

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