Harness
Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform(Data Activation & Analytics)
Position Summary
We are building a unified data platform to serve 20+ product modules, enabling ingestion, processing, and retrieval of data to power analytics & systems at scale. This role is part of the Data Activation & Analytics charter under the Unified Data Platform umbrella, focused on designing and developing a self-serve analytics platform with semantic & modelling layer, DSL based query layer & analytics backwards materialization layer. The platform will support both custom dashboards that product teams can build on their own & also ready-to-embed analytics modules.
About the Role
- You will lead the design, architecture & development of this platform alongside senior architects, solving deep problems in DSL based query expressions, sub-second read latency ,multi-tenancy, high concurrency, OLAP modelling and secure data access.
- You will be working closely with senior engineering leaders, mentor senior/junior engineers and problem solve with product teams.
- Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents
- Design and implement automation of infrastructure setup using helm, terraform and similar technologies.
- Perform peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code
- Work alongside Site Reliability Engineers and cross functional teams to diagnose/troubleshoot any production performance related issues
About You
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong focus on data platforms and analytics systems.
- Proven expertise in building low-latency, highly concurrent microservices in the Data Platform space.
- Deep knowledge of fact/dimensional modelling in data lakes/warehouses.
- Strong understanding of OLAP workloads and hands-on experience with MPP/OLAP datastores such as StarRocks, Apache Pinot, or Apache Druid.
- Good understanding of OLAP/MPP DB internals(infra, performance, scale).
- Proficiency in JVM-based languages (Java, Scala, Kotlin).
- Experience in building DSL-based query services is preferred.
- Experience in building ETL for powering analytics is preferred.
Work Location
- Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week.
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
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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