Staff Software Engineer

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness IACM (Infrastructure as Code Management) empowers engineering teams to automate, govern, and optimize their infrastructure provisioning at scale. With deep integration into CI/CD workflows, IACM orchestrates cloud resources using best-practice templates, policy-driven controls, and intelligent lifecycle management—delivering secure, compliant infrastructure with speed and reliability. Join us to help build the future of DevOps automation and unlock infrastructure innovation for some of the world’s most ambitious software 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+ 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 IACM 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

Hybrid - Mountain View, Ca