Principal Software Engineer CI
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a high-impact component at a rapidly growing this role you will focus on the Harness Cloud infrastructure which serves as the foundation for various Harness products. You will be responsible for architecting scaling and securing the cloud platform that fuels Harnesss Continuous Integration (CI) Security Testing Orchestration (STO) Infrastructure as Code (IAC) Cloud Developer Environments (CDE) and other essential products.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead efforts to scale and secure the Harness Cloud platform including lifecycle management of a large fleet of bare-metal and Virtual Machines
- Design develop and maintain critical cloud infrastructure components in a fast-paced quality-conscious environment. Our technology stack is built on Golang Java Kubernetes MongoDB Redis etc.
- Author technical specifications and architecture documents
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems across the distributed infrastructure
- Perform peer reviews of specifications designs and code
- Work alongside Cloud Engineers and cross-functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot production issues
About You
- 10 years of experience with Java GoLang and Kubernetes
- Experience with cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
- Strong background in distributed systems architecture and implementation
- Experience with VM/Container orchestration technologies such as Nomad
- Experience in as many of the following areas:
- Building and operating containerised applications at scale (K8s Docker)
- Working with MongoDB and Redis including indexing and query optimization
- Cloud infrastructure automation and orchestration
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree or professional experience; an advanced degree is a plus
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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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
