Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, founded by technologist Jyoti Bansal. The Principal Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain critical software in a Java environment, working on a product that connects to various developer tools and processes millions of events to turn SDLC data into actionable metrics.
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
- 12+ 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
- Performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position
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