Harness
Staff Software Engineer at Harness
$150,000–$226,000 / year
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- Company
- Harness
- Location
- Remote, United States
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $150,000–$226,000 / year
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Role overview
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Harness is hiring a full-time Staff Software Engineer for its Software Engineering Insights (SEI) team. SEI connects with more than 40 developer tools, including Jira and GitHub, and processes software development lifecycle data into useful engineering metrics. The team builds products for engineers, with work spanning data modeling, system design, developer experience, and secure cloud integrations.
In this role, you will develop and maintain Java software, design scalable backend systems, and help ensure the quality of the features you own. You will create functional specifications and design documents, work in iterative development cycles with customer feedback, review peers’ work, and investigate complex issues in distributed systems. You will also collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and other teams on deployments and production troubleshooting.
The position is based in the Bay Area or remote within the United States, with periodic travel required. The listed annual salary range is $150,000–$226,000. Pay may depend on skills, experience, qualifications, location, and internal comparisons; some positions may also be eligible for performance-based incentives and/or equity. Harness lists healthcare, an FSA, an EAP, flexible time off and parental leave, quarterly four-day TGIF time off, team events, a Recharge & Reset Program, monthly internet reimbursement, and commuter benefits. Valid authorization to work in the United States is required.
Role at a glance: Harness seeks a Java-focused Staff Software Engineer for its SEI team, with Bay Area or U.S. remote work, periodic travel, and a listed salary range of $150,000–$226,000 per year.
Responsibilities mentioned in the listing
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain critical software in a quality-focused Java environment.
- Write functional specifications and design documents for features.
- Take ownership of key system components and their delivered quality.
- Build scalable backend software solutions and diagnose complex distributed-system issues.
- Work in an agile process with iterative releases and short customer feedback cycles.
- Review specifications, designs, and code from peers.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and cross-functional teams on deployments and production troubleshooting.
Qualifications stated in the listing
- 8–10+ years of experience building highly scalable distributed applications, products, and backend services with Java.
- Interest in building products that address complex technical problems for end users.
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Strong understanding of how to build and deploy resilient distributed software.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Experience working in short release cycles.
- SQL query tuning and performance optimization experience is a plus.
- Experience with search frameworks such as Elasticsearch or SOLR is a plus.
Full details from the source listing
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 Software Engineering Insights (SEI) is where engineering meets engineering intelligence. As part of this team, you’ll work on a deeply technical product that connects to 40+ developer tools like Jira and GitHub, processes millions of events, and turns raw SDLC data into actionable metrics.
This is a product that engineers build for engineers, where you’ll see your work directly impact how thousands of developers build software. Expect challenges in data modeling, systems design, developer UX, and secure cloud integrations — all to help engineers and leaders build faster, better, and smarter.
About The Role
- Design, develop, deploy and maintain critical software in a fast-paced quality conscious Java environment.
- Author software functional specifications and design documents for features developed.
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
- Work in an agile environment, using iterative development cycles and a short customer feedback loop
- Design and implementation of scalable backend software solutions
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment.
- Perform peer reviews of specifications, design, and code
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues
About You
- 8-10+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Experience with SQL query tuning, performance optimizations is a plus
- Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch, SOLR is a plus
- Experience with applications hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus
- Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus
- Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
- Experience working in short release cycles
Ready to Build Something Engineers Love. This is your chance to shape the systems that shape how software gets built. Join Harness today!
Work Location
Bay Area or Remote in the U.S. with periodic travel required
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
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- 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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