Harness
AI Software Delivery Platform
StaffSoftwareEngineer-DataCollection
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“Staff Software Engineer - Data Collection at Harness. Skills: Data collection agents, Go, C++, Java. Design and build advanced data collection agents. Build advanced data collection pipelines in Go, C++, and Java”
Industry & Context.
Excellent problem-solving skills
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of software engineering experience, command of Go, C++, and Java, Deep knowledge of data structures, Deep knowledge of algorithms, Deep knowledge of system fundamentals (process, memory, CPU, containers, cgroups, filesystems), Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), Familiarity with infrastructure setup (VPC, load balancers, auto scaling, compute instances), Experience with Docker, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with distributed cloud-native systems, Excellent problem-solving skills, Excellent debugging skills, diagnosing non-code issues, communication and collaboration proven ability to work independently, Track record of mentoring or leading engineers in a team setting
Nice to Have
Prior experience writing security policies for API gateways or load balancers, Contributions to open-source projects, Hands-on exposure to networking devices such as F5 BigIP, Citrix ADC, Avi, or Arista, Knowledge of DevSecOps practices, Knowledge of modern observability tools
What You'll Do.
Design and build advanced data collection agents
Build advanced data collection pipelines in Go
Develop scalable mechanisms for extracting API traffic
Work across the stack: Linux internals
Work across the stack: networking protocols
Work across the stack: system performance
Contribute to policies for API Gateways
Contribute to policies for load balancers
Optimize for performance
Optimize for reliability
Optimize for low-overhead data collection
Partner with Security Research teams
Partner with Platform teams
Contribute to open-source projects
Represent Traceable in the engineering community
Mentor junior engineers
Influence technical direction within the team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Security Research and Platform teams; Contribute to open-source projects; Represent Traceable in the engineering community; Mentor junior engineers; Influence technical direction within the team; communication and collaboration proven ability to work independently; Track record of mentoring or leading engineers in a team setting
Communication Scope
communication and collaboration proven ability to work independently
Full Job Description
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 26 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. Position Summary Harness is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Agent and Data Collection team. This team forms the foundation of the Appsec platform, building high-performance systems that extract API data from diverse environments using eBPF, traffic mirroring, API gateway policies, and language agents. You will solve challenging systems and networking problems, designing resilient solutions that power Traceable’s API security platform at scale. This role
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