Staff Software Engineer - Billing & Licensing
Harness · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
About this role
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 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Harness is looking for a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to drive the evolution of our Billing & Licensing platform within the Platform Engineering Organization. This is an opportunity to make a significant technical impact by designing and building a platform capable of processing millions of events daily while delivering a seamless, AWS-like billing experience for our customers.
We are seeking a hands-on engineer who thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, has deep experience in backend development (Java/Go), and is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
About the role
- Lead the technical direction and architecture for our Billing & Licensing platform.
- Design and build scalable, low-latency, high-concurrency systems capable of handling millions of events daily.
- Drive platform-level coding, best practices, and technical excellence across the stack—architecture, development, deployment, and production operations.
- Collaborate closely with other engineers, architects, and product teams to make critical technical decisions.
- Mentor engineers and influence engineering practices across teams to elevate code quality, performance, and system reliability.
- Take ownership of key production systems, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Shape the technical roadmap, anticipating future scalability and platform requirements.
ABOUT YOU
- Technical Leader: 8+ years of experience building backend SaaS systems in Java or Go, with a strong emphasis on architecture and hands-on coding.
- Platform Builder: Skilled in designing data-intensive, low-latency, multi-tenant systems.
- Mentor & Influencer: Comfortable guiding teams, reviewing code, and promoting best practices.
- Customer-Focused: Understands the importance of reliability, performance, and user experience in mission-critical systems.
- Battle-Tested: Experienced with production incidents, on-call responsibilities, and building resilient systems.
- Collaborator: Able to work with globally distributed teams across time zones.
- Educational Background: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
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
- 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
We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.
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.
If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.
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