Principal Software Engineer- CD

Position Summary

This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a high-impact component at a rapidly growing startup. In this role, you will focus on the Continuous Delivery & GitOps which serves as the foundation for various Harness products. You will be responsible for architecting, scaling, and securing the cloud platform that fuels Harness's CD and other essential products.

Principal Engineers at Harness

Poses a careful blend of domain specific engineering expertise and world class technical leadership. There are a number of competencies that a Principal Engineer must display. 

• Technical Competencies
• In depth tactical knowledge of the domain, yet broad experience and skill sets 
• Domain and product expert when representing harness with customers and internal teams alike. 
• Seamlessly include, promote and balance cross functional inputs from Product, Design, Enablement
• Break down complex technical requirements to motivate and lead cross-functional teams 
• Consider the execution needed today, into the future, make investments aligned with broader impact 
• Leadership Competencies
• Demonstrable experience in executing on one, or multiple roadmap through working with others, finding the ROI in organized efforts
• Subject matter and domain expertise applied to develop others internal and external to Harness
• In depth understanding of product features and roadmaps, how customers engage with the product in your space 
• Clear displays of improving execution via process optimization, or other means 
• Natural advisor to leadership on resourcing constraints, efficiencies.  
• Practice and evangelize Harness core values
• Participate and contribute to Architecture Committees, Hiring Committees, and others that are formed to solve issues across the org, and company 

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates and proposes collaborative efforts across multiple teams in engineering, guiding team members to make well-informed decisions that align with the strategic plans of the respective sub-department.
• Proactively seeks to prevent redundant efforts, taking existing assets and hardening them for broad re-usability
• Apply your expertise in a mentorship capacity, to others in the organization. Champion a culture of improvement. 
• Participate in resource planning, project mapping, and success criteria for large engineering initiatives
• Responds swiftly to the needs of today. Plan diligently for the needs of tomorrow
• Solve the most difficult technical problems at Harness. 
• Interfaces with senior engineering leadership on project deliverables and planning. Create visibility and presents to executives when needed 
• Lead and inspire innovation at the highest order across Harness’ portfolio of products and services
• Propose POCs and optimizations regularly
• Align the goals of module sub-teams with the overall goals of Harness Engineering
• Gather escalations from your project team, remove blockers, enable your project team, broker solutions with cross functional engineering leadership
• Represent your project to external customers, partners or other stakeholders.
• You are the Harness SME for most, if not all domains in your area of expertise

About You

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science 
• 12+ years of work experience 
• Should have worked on Java, Golang, GRPC based microservices architecture with a modern tech stack and development environment 
• Must have good knowledge/experience on Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka/Kafka Streams 
• Must have worked extensively on low level API design and have a good understanding of basic design principles 
• Strong experience in building, designing and scaling high performance solutions and products 
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to listen effectively 
• Must have experience in mentoring and managing team 

Nice to have 

• Good to have experience in devops products development background.