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

In this role, you will be working with internal and external stakeholders to architect, design and implement Dev Sec Ops, Fin Ops and Engineering Excellence solutions for enterprise customers. You will have an opportunity to work with Harness Engineering and various customer functions, such as DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Finance and Engineering Analytics teams. You will develop best practices and automations to streamline Harness platform deployments in the most efficient, scalable, repeatable and reliable manner possible. We're a high-growth company on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to revolutionize engineering deployment tools & continuous delivery.

About the role

• Engage with our customer's technical teams to analyze and understand current Dev Sec Ops/CI/CD/Policy & Template Governance tools and processes

• Architect and implement an optimized Harness setup for integration, scale, and repeatability

• Interface with the Customer's Executive and Leadership teams to understand the technical goals and business objectives related to their CI/CD process, design their Harness implementation to best fit those requirements, and correlate the technical success criteria to the business requirements

• Provide positive anecdotes from each engagement, craft best practices around Customer implementations, convert them into automation and create reference patterns

• Document and implement processes and solutions that are employed for onboarding success for the purpose of internal enablement

• Contribute to the product design, assist in the Harness Community, and for building out of an advanced technical knowledge base

• Consult on Dev Sec Ops/CI/CD best practices, processes, solutions, etc.

• Interact with customers on a professional, meaningful and technically deep level

• Ability to be able to implement and debug on a Self Managed Platform. Experience in implementing solutions in Federal or Government Organizations or highly regulated environments

• Work closely with Pre-sales and Post-sales teams to ensure that Harness customers are successful and experience a high level of customer satisfaction with the Harness solution.

About you

• BA/BS degree in CS or Computer Engineering-related field with 3+ years of relevant experience

• 5+ Experience with DevOps and including some multiple of the following solutions preferred:

• Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Bamboo, Team City, TravisCI, Bitbucket, Jira, Service Now, Helm, Kustomize, PCF, Open Shift, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Linux, Python, Bash, Powershell, App Dynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, Instana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, Sumo Logic, etc.

• Experience delivering custom solutions to customers of all sizes, whether internal or external (external customer-facing experience a plus).

• You are a perpetual learner, thrive in a team setting, enjoy sharing your experience and solutions, consistently pursuing excellence and success in all your tasks, detail-oriented and analytical, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Results-driven individual with a hunger for accomplishing in fast paced environments and a knack for optimizing processes

• Willingness to travel up to 25%

• Must have security clearance to work with the customers in the Federal space and Government agencie

Work Location

Remote from within the US - preferably within Eastern time zone - up to 25% travel

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Flexible work schedule

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $165,000 to $175,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency**$165,000—$175,000 USD**

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.