HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson and Revel

• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development

• Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Backend Principal Engineer with deep expertise in Python and GoLang to design and develop scalable APIs, integrations, and data-driven systems. This role requires experience in cloud platforms and data analytics. The ideal candidate brings a proactive, go-getter mindset, taking initiative to identify challenges, propose innovative solutions, and deliver high-quality software.

What You Will Do

• Lead the architecture and design of microservices and streaming systems.

• Build, review, and deliver high-quality backend services (Python/GoLang) and data pipelines.

• Define and enforce best practices across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, security, and testing.

• Drive production reliability through SLOs/SLIs, performance optimization, incident management, and postmortems.

• Work closely with cloud services and platforms.

What You Need to Be Successful

• 10 to 13 years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on experience in backend development using Python and Golang.

• API and integration expertise, including REST, gRPC, and messaging patterns.

• Data and caching experience with RDBMS/SQL (Postgres/MySQL), NoSQL, and caching solutions such as Redis.

• Big data processing and orchestration experience with Spark, Flink, Airflow, and dbt.

• Data warehousing and data lake technologies, including Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift, along with ETL/ELT patterns.

• Streaming and data pipeline experience using Kafka and event-driven architectures.

• Cloud experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including architectural patterns, IAM, and networking.

• Hands-on knowledge of cloud services such as compute, storage, and networking.

• Containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Infrastructure as Code experience with Pulumi or Terraform, including provisioning and state management.

• CI/CD and release management using GitHub Actions or Jenkins, including canary and blue-green deployments.

• Strong focus on testing and quality through unit, integration, and contract testing, as well as test automation.

• Proven experience in performance optimization and scalability, including profiling, load testing, and capacity planning.

Bonus Points if You Have  

• B.Tech, Master’s in Computer Science, or a related domain.

• Strong frontend fundamentals, including React, Angular, TypeScript, and HTML/CSS.

• Cloud-native experience with serverless architectures, service mesh, and GitOps/ArgoCD.

• Exposure to SRE practices, including incident response, runbook creation, and automation.

What Makes You Eligible

• Demonstrated production ownership of large-scale backend services, cloud deployments, and streaming systems.

• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to mentor and guide teams.

• A proactive, go-getter attitude.

What We Offer

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location

• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)

• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University

• Competitive wellness benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development

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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.