Principal Software Engineer - AI

Principal Engineers at Harness

• 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

• • Driving end to end, design and implementation of features
  • Design, develop, and maintain integrations with multiple AI and cloud systems like Google Vertex AI, Azure, AWS and OpenAI
  • Build Gen AI based Agentic architecture for a first class AI enabled user experience
  • Use Prompt engineering techniques to leverage the best LLM models
  • Collaborate with product management, engineering teams and Machine learning engineers for requirements through to delivery
  • Design and implement scalable AI services

Requirement

• 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
• 8+ years of experience developing backend systems
• 6+ years of experience in Python with some knowledge of JavaScript (preferably Typescript)
• Experience in RestAPIs, RPC, Deploying services
• Experience in data modeling using NoSQL systems like MongoDB or SQL systems like MySQL, Postgres, etc.
• Bachelors degree, CS preferred, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience working AWS to build scalable applications
• Preference for candidates with experience in:.