The Harness Engineering team is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead complex cross platform initiatives and lead technical projects across geographies. Principal Engineers are recognized experts in Harness’ technology domain, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization. Principal Engineers carry the responsibility of steering the course for their organizational segment, partnering with senior leadership, prioritizing initiatives to achieve a range of objectives.

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 

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

Requirements

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: Modern Software Delivery, building complex distributed systems
• Demonstrable experience in advanced Java, Golang, or comparable programing languages.
• Depth of experience in distributed systems 
• Advanced Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience. 

Work Location

This position is a hybrid role that will require the person to work from our Mountain View Office 3 days a week.

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $220,000 - $250,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.