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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Harness

Harness

Software Engineering
Argentina
Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

Split - (a Harness.io company) is committed to power the world's product decisions and enabling engineering and product to release features quickly and safely. As a Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for building massively scalable, low latency, elegant systems that turn billions of data points per day into meaningful data streams to delight our customers with relevant information. You will also help shape our customer features and experience through the building of our application backend, working on all our experimentation and measurement features. Split engineers have strong problem solving capabilities, are great team players and have great communication skills. They are goal-oriented, have the ability to handle interruptions while fluidly switching between several projects and dealing with issues that arise when running a highly available service. As with all engineering positions at Split, we are not looking for those who code the fastest, but those who find a balance between creating code from scratch and leveraging existing frameworks and technologies to deliver the best value to our customers.

About the role

  • Build distributed, high-volume data pipelines to power new product features based on analytics and statistics using cutting-edge technologies like Clickhouse, Kafka, and data warehouse solutions across a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud).
  • Collaborate with data scientists, designers, product managers and software engineers to build an amazing experience for our customers.
  • Co-own and contribute to meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, and grow with the company.
  • Own service operation in production, including participating in on call rotation.
  • Regularly perform code reviews, pair/mob programming sessions, and collaborative design workshops.

About you

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering and programming experience.
  • 2+ years of architecture and design (patterns, reliability, scalability, quality) of complex systems.
  • Strong English written and verbal communication skills, capable of working in a distributed team in both an asynchronous and synchronous environment.
  • Experience building and operating data pipelines at scale for real customers in production systems.
  • Fluent in several programming languages, particularly Java and SQL.
  • Experience in operating and maintaining production-grade software.

Work Location

Argentina

What you will have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events