Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform(Data Ingestion)

Harness.com

Office

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Full Time

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 Ingestion charter under the Unified Data Platform umbrella, focused on designing and developing an extremely high-scale ingestion platform with focus on data streaming, open table based data storage, and highly scalable transformation layer. This platform is the foundation to multiple experiences within Harness including dashboard, analytics, and product utilization.

About The Role

You will collaborate with principal engineers and architects on the design, architecture, and development of this platform. This will involve solving complex challenges related to data streaming, transformation, and managing extremely large-scale data storage.
Collaborate closely with various product engineering teams, offering guidance to facilitate their onboarding onto the data platform.
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
Minimum 7-12 years of hands-on experience in backend software development, primarily within the data platform domain and with a focus on distributed systems.
Hands on experience building ETL pipelines with technologies like SQLMesh, DBT, or Spark Structured Streaming
Hands-on experience with query engines like Trino
Deep exposure to OLAP stores like Pinot, Druid, Clickhouse, StarRocks, Snowflake, or Databricks
Working experience with open table architecture such as Iceberg, Delta Lake or Hudi.
Experience with data streaming technologies like Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams etc
Familiarity with OLTP datastores such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Experience scaling and operating production data systems at 10K+ QPS
Deep working experience with Java and Python

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

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