Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Our CD platform is redefining how modern teams deploy software enabling safe, automated, intelligent deployments at scale with AI-driven deployment verification, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks. Customers rely on Harness CD to ship with confidence, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate release velocity.
We’re looking for an Architect to own the technical direction of Continuous Delivery, a high-revenue product line poised for 4x growth. You’ll set the multi-year architectural vision for CD, stay deeply hands-on solving the hardest deployment problems, and act as the definitive technical authority across the CD organization and with customers.
About the Role- Own the end-to-end architecture of the CD product suite deployment orchestration, pipeline execution, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), and automated rollback safety.
- Set the multi-year technical roadmap for CD, making build/buy and investment decisions that align with broader Harness engineering strategy.
- Stay deeply hands-on: build critical POCs and MVPs, write production code for the hardest problems, and prototype new deployment capabilities.
- Serve as the definitive CD subject-matter expert representing Harness to customers, partners, and internal leadership, and presenting to executives.
- Drive cross-team architectural alignment: prevent redundant efforts, harden shared assets for reuse, and broker solutions across engineering leadership.
- Mentor and elevate Principal and Senior Engineers; champion a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents; perform peer reviews of specs, designs, and code.
- Partner with SREs to diagnose and resolve production performance, reliability, and scale issues.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of backend software development, with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
- Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD, GitOps, deployment, or software-delivery platform (or comparable high-throughput orchestration system).
- Deep hands-on expertise in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) and/or Golang, gRPC-based microservices.
- Expert-level Kubernetes: deployment models, operators, multi-cluster/multi-cloud, plus observability and alerting.
- Strong command of low-level API design and core distributed-systems principles.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, driving multi-team roadmaps, and advising leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux) or progressive-delivery frameworks.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Terraform, and Helm.
- Background building developer or DevOps products.
- Open-source contributions to relevant CDF/CNCF projects.
- Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
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- 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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- 15+ years of backend software development with expertise in large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
- Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD, GitOps, deployment, or software-delivery platform (or comparable orchestration system).
- Deep hands-on expertise in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) and/or Golang, and gRPC-based microservices.
- Expert-level Kubernetes knowledge: deployment models, operators, multi-cluster/multi-cloud, observability and alerting.
- Strong command of low-level API design and core distributed-systems principles.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, driving multi-team roadmaps, advising leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
Harness Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Harness and has not been reviewed or approved by Harness.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles, with engineering noted as particularly strong. Feedback suggests role-level compensation details for sales are relatively visible, aiding clarity around base and OTE.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Programs like flexible PTO, parental leave, periodic company-wide Fridays off, and a dedicated Recharge & Reset benefit expand time-away options. Feedback suggests these cadence-based days help employees meaningfully disconnect.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is highlighted alongside an Employee Assistance Program and wellness initiatives. Mental health and wellbeing support complement the primary plans.
Harness Insights
What We Do
Harness is a leader in AI-native software delivery, dedicated to empowering developers and engineering teams worldwide. We revolutionize how software is built, tested, deployed, and optimized by driving efficiency, reliability, and speed throughout the software development lifecycle. At Harness, we envision a world where developers focus on innovation, free from repetitive tasks, supported by tools that streamline every step. Our platform leverages AI and automation across all key pillars of software delivery: Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags and Experimentation, Cloud Cost Management, Security Testing, and more. By automating traditionally manual processes that slow down engineering teams, Harness enables organizations to release software faster, reduce errors, and optimize costs—all while enhancing the developer experience and flexibility. Harness is transforming software delivery on a global scale. As a pioneer in AI-driven automation, we streamline complex development processes, eliminate inefficiencies, and empower developers to innovate freely. Our mission is ambitious: enabling millions of developers to deliver code faster, more reliably, and with greater ease than ever before.
Why Work With Us
Harness is built on a culture of growth, collaboration, and transparency, where team members are encouraged to push boundaries and solve meaningful challenges. We invest in personal and professional development, value work-life balance, and foster a supportive environment—making Harness an ideal place to make a real impact in tech.
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