Principal Engineer - Data Platform
HarnessBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted August 28, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Harness is a leading software delivery platform startup offering comprehensive modules for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, and more. The platform accelerates cloud initiatives and container adoption, simplifying software delivery to give developers time back. Key differentiators include AI/ML integration and a holistic approach to DevOps practices.
Job Description
Harness is a data-focused company seeking a Principal Engineer to design and develop scalable data platform systems. The role involves working closely with SRE teams to solve performance and scalability problems, building platforms for other engineering teams and contributing to the overall development of the data platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science
- 10+ years of hands-on software (backend) development experience
- Deep exposure to Streaming Technologies like Flink, Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams etc
- Deep exposure to Big Data Technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
- Deep exposure to OLAP stores like Pinot, Druid, Clickhouse
- Familiarity with document datastores such as MongoDB
- Exposure to scaling and operating production data systems at 10K+ QPS
- Deep exposure to JVM based languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin
Benefits
- 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
