Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Harness (company site, opens in a new tab)10–14 yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–80 LPA
Posted 1d ago
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About This Role
- Lead and grow a high-impact engineering team focused on building globally distributed, scalable feature management systems with millisecond latency.
- Drive agile software delivery, ensuring consistent execution across multiple priorities including integration with Harness 3.0 and Unified Data Platform.
- Own engineering excellence, operational health (targeting minimal regressions), and cross-functional collaboration with product and SRE teams to ensure enterprise-grade reliability.
Minimum Requirements
- 10-14 years in software development with 2-3 years in formal engineering management or tech lead role.
- Strong technical expertise in building distributed, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend systems using Java or Golang.
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure), and advanced database technologies such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch.
- Experience scaling data pipelines handling 10TB+ daily and knowledge of distributed processing frameworks like Spark and Flink.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced leader capable of managing and mentoring high-performing backend engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems design and operational rigor, including CI/CD, deployment metrics, and incident minimization.
- Comfortable operating in highly concurrent, low-latency, real-time data processing or edge delivery network contexts with a strong scale mindset.