Staff Software Engineer - Billing & Licensing

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.

Harness is looking for a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to drive the evolution of our Billing & Licensing platform within the Platform Engineering Organization. This is an opportunity to make a significant technical impact by designing and building a platform capable of processing millions of events daily while delivering a seamless, AWS-like billing experience for our customers.

We are seeking a hands-on engineer who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, has deep experience in backend development (Java/Go), and is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.

About the role

• Lead the technical direction and architecture for our Billing & Licensing platform.

• Design and build scalable, low-latency, high-concurrency systems capable of handling millions of events daily.

• Drive platform-level coding, best practices, and technical excellence across the stack—architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.

• Collaborate closely with other engineers, architects, and product teams to make critical technical decisions.

• Mentor engineers and influence engineering practices across teams to elevate code quality, performance, and system reliability.

• Take ownership of key production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization.

• Shape the technical roadmap, anticipating future scalability and platform requirements.

ABOUT YOU

• Technical Leader: 8+ years of experience building backend SaaS systems in Java or Go, with a strong emphasis on architecture and hands-on coding.

• Platform Builder: Skilled in designing data-intensive, low-latency, multi-tenant systems.

• Mentor & Influencer: Comfortable guiding teams, reviewing code, and promoting best practices.

• Customer-Focused: Understands the importance of reliability, performance, and user experience in mission-critical systems.

• Battle-Tested: Experienced with production incidents, on-call responsibilities, and building resilient systems.

• Collaborator: Able to work with globally distributed teams across time zones.

• Educational Background: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

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

• 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.

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