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

Harness Software Engineering Insights helps engineering leaders unlock metrics and insights to understand bottlenecks in their SLDC and drive efficiencies. It connects to 40+ SDLC tools and correlates data from these different tools to surface insights and metrics. It ingests and analyzes data from these SDLC tools and offers the box widget to serve insights into surface bottlenecks. The product provides additional customization to accommodate an enterprise's software engineering workflow.

This is an opportunity to lead a high-growth team at a high-growth company.

Key Responsibilities

• Led the data API team that connects with various SDLC sources, bringing in data and serving end-user-facing analytics within SEI

• Recruit, grow, and retain top talent

• Lead design reviews and participate in code reviews

• Coach and mentor the team in building resilient, scalable, and cost-effective services

• Partner with Product Management to influence product strategy and roadmap. Be the voice of the customer and product within the team and enable the team to make the right technical decisions with clear outcomes for the product and customer in mind

• Participate in implementation and use this as an opportunity to lead by example

• Partner with other engineering leaders across geographies, communicating clearly and proactivel.

About You Experience:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in the software industry. Demonstrated experience building high-scalable resilient microservices

• 2+ years of people management experience, leading engineers.

Technical Expertise:

• Deep understanding of the processes and architecture of web and cloud services.

• Solid experience in data ingestion, processing, performance, and scalability in large-scale data platforms.

• Strong technical foundation in coding, scaling, testing, and operating services, with the ability to contribute effectively to technical discussions.

Leadership Skills:

• Passionate about mentoring and helping engineers grow professionally.

• Excellent communication skills, synthesizing and explaining complex problems to diverse audiences.

• Proven track record of successful collaboration with teams, peers, and leadership.

Work Location

• Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 3x/ week.

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

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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.