Entry Level Platform Engineer

Start Date: July 2025

The Software Engineer for the Development Acceleration team will be part of a dynamic team on a “hands-on learning journey” in platform engineering involving the Enterprise Developer Platform, Harness.io.

This role is an entry level position requiring individuals who thrive in uncertain and evolving environments, adapt quickly, and are curious and eager to learn. Individuals in this unique role will become familiar with the buildout of golden paths, CI/CD pipelines and related scripting, creation of developer-focused documentation, enabling a better developer experience. The team will look to this individual to collaborate with Harness platform engineers and the CI/CD development team to learn about the Harness platform, as well as with the application teams to support their journey with the Harness platform.

Primary Responsibilities:

Contribute to group discussions and working sessions and share learning with peers and mentors.

Learn about golden paths/ workflows involving automated testing, deployment strategies, and rollback / fail-forward mechanisms.

Learn about CI/CD best practices and their implementation.

Learn about Infrastructure-as-Code module registry.

Update runbooks and other technical documentation about the golden paths based upon learnings.

Triage questions from the application teams about the Harness platform.

Communicate with the application teams with relevant information via live/digital channels.

Participate in regular and after-hours support rotation for the Harness platform.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (e.g., computer science, information systems, math, engineering, etc.)

Basic knowledge or experience with one programming language.

Scripting experience with bash, Python, or Go.

Ability to read, deconstruct, and act upon a stack trace.

Some familiarity with version control systems, especially in a collaborative setting.

Experience with O365, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The ability to translate technology into relatable concepts for others.

Highly motivated with strong organizational, analytical, decision making, and problem-solving skills.

Ability to build trust and strong partnerships and to work collaboratively within and across teams whether in person or remote.

Ability to professionally handle conflict and create positive outcomes.

Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities, prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment.

High level of professionalism, confidence, and ability to build credibility with team members and business partners.

Understanding of or exposure to Agile methodologies.

Basic exposure to the Harness platform is a plus.

Interest or exposure to containerization of applications workloads and building deployment pipelines.

Strong curiosity about software quality, security, and automation.

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