# Staff Software Engineer at Harness

- Company: Harness
- What the company does: Backed by Battery, Norwest and GV.
- Company website: https://harness.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: U.S. (Remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $226K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.harness.io/company/jobs/apply?gh_jid=4803804007&gh_jid=4803804007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/harness-staff-software-engineer-2/

## About the role

Harness Software Engineering Insights (SEI) is where engineering meets engineering intelligence. As part of this team, you’ll work on a deeply technical product that connects to 40+ developer tools like Jira and GitHub, processes millions of events, and turns raw SDLC data into actionable metrics.

## What they're looking for

- 8-10+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java
- A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
- Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Experience with SQL query tuning, performance optimizations is a plus
- Experience with search frameworks like Elasticsearch, SOLR is a plus
- Experience with applications hosted on AWS/Azure/GCP is a plus

Tags: Software Development
