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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Harness Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $226,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Github, Iterative and Incremental Development, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Performance Tuning, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Apache Solr, SQL Databases, Backend, Docker
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/staff-software-engineer-509976319

## About the Role

* 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!

## Description

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