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.

Position Summary:

This is an amazing opportunity to be an engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will be part of the Cloud Cost Management product and responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on the company's product experience.

About the Role:

4–8 years of professional experience in data engineering or a closely related discipline.
Expert-level proficiency in SQL, with demonstrated experience in performance optimization and dimensional data modeling.
Proven experience designing and operating data platforms at petabyte scale.
Hands-on expertise with modern OLAP data warehouses such as Big Query, Click House, or Star Rocks.
Practical experience using SQL-based transformation frameworks, including SQLMesh, dbt, or equivalent tools.
Strong programming skills in Python (preferred), with working knowledge of Java and/or Go.
Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal, Apache Airflow, or Dagster.
Proficiency working across major cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
Strong emphasis on clean architecture, data quality, testing, and automation best practices.
Experience with distributed data processing engines such as Apache Spark.
Familiarity with open table formats, including Apache Iceberg.
Experience with Looker and LookML for analytics and dashboard modeling.

Work Location

This role will be out of our Bangalore, India office.

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.
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