Staff Software Engineer - Billing & Licensing

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 M ... (truncated, view full listing at source)