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.
- Embed inside a customer's engineering organization for the length of a build engagement to design and build agent-driven automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Write production code connecting Harness AI Agents to a customer's pipelines, repositories, ITSM tooling, security systems, and infrastructure.
- Partner directly with customer engineering stakeholders and the broader Harness delivery team to translate an approved plan into working software.
- Prototype quickly, ship incrementally, and iterate directly with customer engineers rather than handing off a static design document.
- Turn what you build into reusable patterns and share them with the broader Harness delivery organization.
- Bring direct feedback to Harness product and engineering teams based on what you learn building in real customer environments.
- Support the transition from custom build to steady-state operation so the customer can independently operate and extend what you built
What Success Looks Like:
-A working, production agent integration lives in the customer's environment by the end of the engagement.
-A reusable pattern or template captured in the Solutions Factory as a direct result of the build.
-Customer engineering stakeholders are able to operate and extend the integration without an ongoing Forward Deployed Engineer presence.
-Healthy, ongoing customer adoption of the Harness platform and AI Agents beyond the specific build, achieved by working closely with the customer throughout the engagement rather than handing off at go-live.
- A platform engineering or software engineering background, with hands-on coding, scripting, and integration ability, not configuration-only experience. You are comfortable working directly in a customer's codebase, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD frameworks.
- Experience building integrations against APIs, event-driven systems, or LLM and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Prior experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, architecture, or embedded consulting capacity where success was measured by working software, not documentation or advisory output.
- Strong grounding in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, plus depth in at least one adjacent domain, such as security, observability, or cost management, sufficient to reason about where an agent should plug into a customer's software delivery lifecycle.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity: able to work from a business objective and an agent's capability boundary to a working integration without a pre-written specification.
- Excellent stakeholder communication, able to work day to day with customer engineers while keeping internal stakeholders aligned on progress.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites for the duration of an active build
- Remote with frequent travel (Up to 50%)
- 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
- 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
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 [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
- Platform engineering or software engineering background with hands-on coding, scripting, and integration experience
- Experience working directly in customer codebases, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD frameworks
- Experience building integrations with APIs, event-driven systems, or LLM and agent orchestration frameworks
- Prior experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, architecture, or embedded consulting role measured by working software delivery
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD and infrastructure as code
- Depth in an adjacent domain such as security, observability, or cost management
- Ability to work from business objectives and agent capability boundaries to build integrations without a pre-written specification
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with customer engineers and internal stakeholders
- Willingness to travel to customer sites for the duration of active builds
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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