[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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