Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer on Harness's IACM (Infrastructure as Code Management) team, designing and maintaining scalable distributed platform services for DevOps automation in a hybrid role based in Belfast. Core stack is Java, Golang, and Python with Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, and GCP.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java and Golang
- Designing/developing REST, GRPC and GraphQL APIs
- Working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL database technologies
- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
- Experience in SAAS platform development with scale
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience (advanced degree preferred)
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP
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 SummaryHarness IACM (Infrastructure as Code Management) empowers engineering teams to automate, govern, and optimize their infrastructure provisioning at scale. With deep integration into CI/CD workflows, IACM orchestrates cloud resources using best-practice templates, policy-driven controls, and intelligent lifecycle management—delivering secure, compliant infrastructure with speed and reliability. Join us to help build the future of DevOps automation and unlock infrastructure innovation for some of the world’s most ambitious software teams.
About The Role
- Design, develops and maintain critical software of scalable platform in fast paced environment
- Authors software functional specifications and design documents
- Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including the delivered quality
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment
- Establishes the best practices in area of quality, performance & architecture inside the team
- Mentors Software Engineers & Senior Software Engineers and provide technical leadership to them
- Performs peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code