Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform(Data Activation & Analytics)

Job Description

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 We are building a unified data platform to serve 20+ product modules, enabling ingestion, processing, and retrieval of data to power analytics & systems at scale. This role is part of the Data Activation & Analytics charter under the Unified Data Platform umbrella, focused on designing and developing a self-serve analytics platform with semantic & modelling layer, DSL based query layer & analytics backwards materialization layer. The platform will support both custom dashboards that product teams can build on their own & also ready-to-embed analytics modules. About The Role You will participate in the design, architecture & development of this platform alongside principal engineers & architects, solving deep problems in DSL based query expressions, sub-second read latency ,multi-tenancy, high concurrency, OLAP modelling and secure data access. You will mentor senior/junior engineers in the form of peer reviews(code/design) or complex debugging. Author high level & low level design documents. Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies. Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues About You Bachelor?s or Master?s degree in Computer Science or related field. 6-9 years of backend engineering experience, with strong focus on data platforms and analytics systems. Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space. Deep knowledge of fact/dimensional modelling in data lakes/warehouses. Strong understanding of OLAP workloads and hands-on experience with MPP/OLAP datastores such as StarRocks, Apache Pinot, or Apache Druid. Good understanding of OLAP/MPP DB internals(infra, performance, scale). Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin). Experience in building DSL-based query services is preferred. Experience in building ETL for powering analytics is preferred. Work Location Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week. 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 Harness AI Tackles Software Development?s Real Bottleneck After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost) Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness) Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. 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