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.
Build Distributed Systems at Global Scale — Join Harness FME
Last year, the Harness FME platform evaluated 4 trillion feature flags. For most people, that’s just an impressive number. For a scale-minded builder and engineering leader, it represents one of the most demanding challenges in distributed systems.
To power this scale, we’ve built:
- Massive global concurrency supporting millions of real-time decisions.
- Millisecond-level latency through a globally distributed feature flag delivery network.
- Tier-one enterprise reliability trusted by the world’s most sophisticated companies.
Our Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) team is expanding in Bengaluru. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this high-impact team. This is a rare opportunity to join early, mentor top talent, and directly shape both the architecture and the high-performance culture of a team whose work sits squarely in the critical path of software delivery for global enterprises.
About the RoleAs a senior Engineering Manager for FME, you will combine technical leadership, strategic execution, and people management to guide a team of highly skilled engineers. You will be responsible for:
- People Leadership & Mentorship: Hire, grow, and nurture a world-class team of engineers in Bengaluru. Provide continuous career framework guidance, technical training, and constructive performance evaluations.
- Execution & Delivery: Drive agile, iterative development cycles with a short customer feedback loop. Ensure the team delivers consistently on module-level and cross-company priorities (including integration into Harness 3.0 and the Unified Data Platform).
- Technical Governance: Own engineering excellence, operational rigor, and product quality. Partner with Architects and Staff Engineers to oversee technical functional specifications, secure cloud integrations, and robust distributed systems design.
- Operational Health: Champion structural practices to minimize production incidents and regressions (targeting 2 S2+ regressions per quarter). Actively track engineering metrics, optimize cloud infrastructure costs (COGS), and enforce efficient code review processes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE/DevOps), and other module teams to unblock dependencies and ensure enterprise-readiness.
- Experience: 10-14 years of overall software development experience, with at least 2–3 years in a formal engineering management or solid tech-lead capacity managing high-performing backend teams.
- Technical Depth: Deep technical expertise in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. Strong familiarity with Java or Golang environments is required.
- Systems & Data Infrastructure: Proven experience working with containerized ecosystems (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS/Azure), and advanced database/search technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Relational DB tuning, Elasticsearch).
- Experience scaling data pipelines processing 10 TB+ daily. Strong expertise in distributed processing frameworks like Spark and Flink
- Scale Mindset: Experience handling systems with high concurrency, low-latency networks, real-time data processing, or edge delivery networks is a massive plus.
- Operational Rigor: Deep understanding of modern CI/CD processes, deployment metrics, automated quality gates, and distributed tracing architectures.
- Soft Skills: Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, and cross-functional communication skills. A proven track record of helping teams navigate ambiguity, manage shifting requirements, and execute under tight release cycles.
- Experience building a transformative product
- End-to-end ownership of your projects
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefit
- Flexible work schedule
- Paid 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
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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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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
- 10–14 years of overall software development experience
- 2–3 years of formal engineering management or experience managing high-performing backend teams
- Strong technical leadership or solid technology lead experience
- Deep expertise building highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Strong familiarity with Java or Golang
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes containerized ecosystems
- Experience with at least one major cloud ecosystem: GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Experience with PostgreSQL, relational database tuning, Elasticsearch, or comparable database and search technologies
- Experience scaling data pipelines processing more than 10 TB daily
- Strong expertise with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark and Flink
- Deep understanding of modern CI/CD processes, deployment metrics, automated quality gates, and distributed tracing
- Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, and cross-functional communication skills
- Experience with high concurrency, low-latency networks, real-time data processing, or edge delivery networks
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.
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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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