Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of App Dynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Service Now, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer who will be responsible for supporting our customers to implement and manage security tools within CI/CD pipelines, and who is also capable of real-time technical troubleshooting.

This role involves deep technical analysis, real-time troubleshooting of production issues, and the critical design and implementation of security orchestration across customer CI/CD pipelines, integrating tools for SAST, DAST, and SCA to enhance their software supply chain posture and compliance. You will work closely with customers to ensure seamless product operation, create diagnostic and recovery scripts, and contribute to automating deployment, monitoring, and issue-resolution workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with customer teams to identify, diagnose, and resolve product-related issues in real-time production environments.

Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting support to customers during on-prem and cloud environments.

Design and implement orchestration of multiple security scanners (SAST, DAST, SCA, container, config, secret scans) in CI/CD pipelines.

Monitor and mitigate open-source and third-party component risks (licensing, vulnerabilities, dependency health).

Build visibility dashboards showing supply-chain posture, risk scoring, and compliance metrics.

Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and DevOps to embed security seamlessly across workflows.

Analyze logs, metrics, and configurations to troubleshoot performance, networking, and connectivity issues.

Maintain a deep understanding of customer environments and guide them through best practices.

Document issues, workarounds, and solutions in internal knowledge bases to drive continuous improvement.

About You

4+ years in a technical support, DevOps, or Security and system administration role.

Hands-on experience in CI/CD pipelines, build systems, integrating security scanning as part of Dev Sec Ops practices.

Strong understanding of security testing types: SAST, DAST, SCA, container/image scanning, configuration scans.

Hands-on experience in Appsec tools like Checkmarx, Blackduck , Snyk, Veracode, etc

Experience with dashboards, reporting vulnerability trends, vulnerability triaging and remediation.

A deep understanding of what SBOMs are, hands-on experience with standard SBOM formats such as SPDX and CycloneDX. The ability to generate, ingest, and manage SBOMs from various third-party and native tools.

Familiarity with OWASP standards, including OWASP GenAI Security, OWASP LLM Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, OWASP Top 10.

Strong scripting or automation background (e.g., Python, Bash, Groovy, YAML).

Strong foundational knowledge of networking concepts and protocols is mandatory for debugging connectivity issues within complex distributed systems.

Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience troubleshooting cloud-based infrastructure.

Soft Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong customer-centric approach.

Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills with a relentless drive to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems.

Adaptability: Demonstrates strong adaptability and a proven ability to quickly grasp new technologies.

Nice to Have

Experience working with AI and security products is a plus

Location

Bangalore, India

What You Will Have at Harness

Experience building a transformative product

End-to-end ownership of your projects

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefit

Flexible work schedule

Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days

Paid Time Off and Parental Leave:

Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

Monthly internet reimbursement

Harness in the news:

Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal

Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.