Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer on Harness's Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) team in Bengaluru, building globally distributed backend microservices in Go and Java that serve trillions of feature-flag evaluations. Day-to-day work spans REST/gRPC APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, and AWS, with services deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8-11 years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Go, C++ and Java
- Deep understanding of CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, memory management, CPU/process architecture, containers, cgroups, filesystems
- Strong experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures
- Hands-on expertise with PostgreSQL (including pgx driver), Redis, and object storage systems such as S3
- Solid experience working within AWS environments, including VPCs, load balancers, auto scaling, and compute instances
- Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and related orchestration tooling
- Strong understanding of API design and backend communication patterns: REST APIs, gRPC, middleware frameworks such as gorilla/mux and alice
- Proficient with Git-based development workflows and modern software delivery practices
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills, including diagnosing infrastructure, networking, and system-level issues
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to operate independently in fast-paced environments
- Proven experience mentoring engineers, driving technical discussions, and leading initiatives across teams
Nice to have
- Exposure to Azure or GCP
- Prior experience writing security policies for API gateways or load balancers
- Contributions to open-source projects
Full description
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position SummaryBuild Distributed Systems at Global Scale — Join Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME)
Last year, the Harness FME platform evaluated 4 trillion feature flags. For most people, that’s just an impressive number. For a scale-minded builder and engineering leader, it represents one of the most demanding challenges in distributed systems.
To power this scale, we’ve built:
- Massive global concurrency supporting millions of real-time decisions.
- Millisecond-level latency through a globally distributed feature flag delivery network.
- Tier-one enterprise reliability trusted by the world’s most sophisticated companies.
About the Role:
- Design and develop scalable backend services using Java/Golang
- Architect and maintain distributed microservices-based systems.
- Build reliable APIs and internal platform services using REST(gorilla.mux, alice.chains) and gRPC.
- Optimize system performance across compute, memory, storage, and networking layers.
- Work with PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, and AWS cloud infrastructure.