Staff Software Engineer (AppSec)

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

This is an amazing opportunity to be a Staff Engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• Collaborate with Data Science and ML teams to productionise the work into the product

• We work in Java and Python. Our platform comprises Kafka, Kafka Streams, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, MongoDB, Kubernetes.

About You

• 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 Python

• Designing/developing REST, GRPC and GraphQL APIs

• You have experience building and operating large-scale data processing systems.

• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark (batch/streaming) and Kafka is a strong plus.

• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills

• Experience in SAAS platform development with scale

• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles

• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality

• B.Tech. / B.E. / MTech. / M.S. in Computer Science

Work Location

• Bangalore

What You Will Have at Harness

• Experience building a transformative product

• End-to-end ownership of your projects

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefit

• Flexible work schedule

• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.