Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of App Dynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Service Now, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

We are building a Unified Data Platform to serve 20+ product modules, enabling ingestion, processing, and retrieval of data to power analytics, machine learning & various intelligent systems at scale. This person will be cross-functionally involved in various initiatives to modernize or scale the data-platform catering to different product modules.

About the Role

• You will lead the design, architecture & development of the Unified Data platform.

• You will be working closely with senior engineering leaders, mentor senior/junior engineers, problem solve with product teams & work with customer success teams.

• You will actively participate in building MVPs and POCs in various areas around data ingestion(streaming/batch), transformation or analytics.

• Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents

• Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies.

• Perform peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code

• 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.

• 15+ years of hands-on software(backend) development experience - most of which should be in the data platform space involving distributed systems & microservices.

• Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices for handling ingestion & analytics.

• Deep exposure to both batch (spark) & stream processing (Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams).

• Deep exposure to Datalake storage backed by S3, GCS or NFS.

• Deep exposure to OLAP data-stores like Pinot, Druid, Clickhouse

• Must have worked with open source technologies in the data platform space

• Familiarity with document datastores such as MongoDB

• Familiarity with RDS like postgress, mysql.

• Exposure to scaling and operating production data systems at 10K+ qps

• Deep exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin

• Experience in building custom DSL based ingestion or query abstractions.

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes infra & deployment, observability & alerting.

• Open-source contributions to major Apache projects in the data space(e.g. Apache Spark or Kafka) is a big plus.

Work Location

• Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 2x/ 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:

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

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