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.
Harness is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Harness Cloud platform, the infrastructure foundation powering Continuous Integration (CI) and several other Harness products. This is a unique opportunity to lead engineers building one of the industry's most scalable cloud-native execution platforms, responsible for securely orchestrating build infrastructure across thousands of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and bare-metal systems.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a highly technical team responsible for architecting, scaling, securing, and operating the cloud platform that powers millions of build executions. You'll partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Customer Success, and Principal Engineers to deliver highly available infrastructure that enables developers worldwide to build software faster, more securely, and at massive scale.
This role is ideal for leaders who enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, growing high-performing engineering teams, and remaining deeply engaged in technical architecture and execution.
About the RoleThe Harness Cloud platform forms the foundation for Continuous Integration (CI) and several other Harness products. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for scaling and evolving the cloud infrastructure that powers our global software delivery platform.
You will:- Lead a team building the Harness Cloud platform, including lifecycle management of a large fleet of virtual machines, bare-metal infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments.
- Drive the architecture, scalability, security, and reliability of distributed cloud infrastructure powering millions of CI workloads.
- Partner with Product Management to define technical roadmaps and deliver capabilities that improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, and customer experience.
- Work closely with Principal Engineers to define long-term technical strategy and architecture for the Harness Cloud platform.
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering, SRE, and Customer Success teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed infrastructure.
- Foster engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design discussions, peer code reviews, and operational best practices.
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvements in observability, resiliency, and operational maturity.
- Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers and technical leaders while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
- Balance execution of customer commitments with long-term investments in platform scalability, automation, and developer productivity.
- 3+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering distributed infrastructure or cloud platform services.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers while driving technical execution and organizational growth.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building cloud-native infrastructure, backend systems, or distributed platforms using Golang, Java, or similar languages.
- Strong experience operating infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Strong understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Virtual Machine lifecycle management
- Container technologies
- Networking
- Storage systems
- Kubernetes
- High availability and fault tolerance
- Experience authoring architecture documents and technical specifications.
- Ability to break down complex technical problems into executable engineering plans.
- Comfortable driving technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.
Experience with:
- Production operations
- Incident management
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Performance optimization
- Capacity planning
- Reliability engineering
- Passionate about building infrastructure that improves developer productivity.
- Comfortable partnering with customer-facing teams to diagnose production issues and influence product direction.
- 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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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 [email protected]. 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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams delivering distributed infrastructure or cloud platform services
- 8+ years software engineering experience building cloud-native infrastructure, backend systems, or distributed platforms using Golang, Java, or similar
- Strong experience operating infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, VM lifecycle management, container technologies, networking, storage systems, and Kubernetes
- Experience with high availability, fault tolerance, capacity planning, and performance optimization
- Experience with production operations, incident management, observability, monitoring, and logging
- Experience authoring architecture documents and technical specifications
- Proven track record mentoring engineers and growing engineering teams
- Ability to collaborate with Product Management, SRE, Customer Success, and Principal Engineers to resolve production issues and define technical roadmaps
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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