Principal Software Engineer

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to work on a deeply technical product that connects to various developer tools and processes millions of events. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining critical software while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance software delivery efficiency.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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