Principal Backend Engineer, AI SDLC Platform (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

TGIF-off

Internet stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Harness is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its SEI team. You will design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable Java backend systems connected to 40+ developer tools, handling millions of events with strong data qualities.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, review code, and work with SRE/DevOps to ensure reliable production systems. Remote in the U.S. with potential Bay Area visits; 12+ years of backend experience required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products, and backend services using Java.
• 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.
• Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD processes is a plus.
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed.
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
• Experience working in short release cycles.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain critical software in a fast-paced Java environment.
• Author software functional specifications and design documents.
• Quickly understand complex systems/code and own key pieces of the system, including delivered quality.
• Work in an agile environment with short customer feedback loops.
• Design and implement scalable backend software solutions.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems in a distributed computing environment.
• Perform peer reviews of specifications, design, and code.
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers/DevOps and cross-functional teams to deploy software and diagnose production issues.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Elasticsearch

AWS/Azure/GCP

Docker

CI/CD

Debugging

Tools

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Harness is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its SEI team. You will design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable Java backend systems connected to 40+ developer tools, handling millions of events with strong data qualities.

You will contribute to architecture discussions, review code, and work with SRE/DevOps to ensure reliable production systems. Remote in the U.S. with potential Bay Area visits; 12+ years of backend experience required.