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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Harness Inc.
- **Location:** Mountain View, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $226,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Databases, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Software Design Documents, DevOps, Programming Tools, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, NoSQL, Reliability Engineering, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Technical Debt, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Graphql, Restful APIs, Grpc, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/19b1571c-fef9-411c-b57e-b7b475ce41a9

## About the Role

* A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
 * 7-11 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/Google Cloud Platform is a plus.
 * Bachelors in Computer Science, Advanced degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience

## Description

Harness Supply Chain Security (SCS) module protects every stage of the software delivery lifecycle by securing builds, artifacts, and dependencies from source to deployment. It provides end-to-end visibility, policy enforcement, and real-time risk detection to help engineering teams ensure software integrity, prevent tampering, and comply with evolving supply chain security standards.As part of this team, you'll work on a fast-growing product that integrates with the broader Harness platform to unify software delivery and developer tooling under one seamless experience. This is a high-impact team solving real pain points for modern DevOps and platform engineering teams., * 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, Google Cloud Platform - Stackdriver, GCS, Cloud composer, AI Platform


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