Principal Engineer - Harness Cloud Backend

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.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
Position Summary
This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a high-impact component at a rapidly growing startup. In 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 Harness's 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 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 containerized 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; advanced degree is a plus

Work Location

• Mountain View, CA - Hybrid (3x / week onsite)

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

Pay transparency
$250,000-$275,000 USD
Harness in the news:

• Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
• Welcome Split!
• SF Business Times - 2024 - 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
• Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
• SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
• Fast Co - 2024 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators

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