[Remote] Staff Software Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain critical software in a fast-paced Java environment, helping teams ship software faster while ensuring security and governance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
- Experience working in short release cycles
- 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
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross functional teams to deploy software or diagnose/troubleshoot any production related issues
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position.
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