Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M 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, ServiceNow, 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
Why this role matters: You’ll be at the center of how Harness measures, monetizes, and delivers customer value — designing systems that handle streaming data pipelines, large-scale event ingestion, real-time metering, and distributed entitlement logic across multiple products. Your work will directly shape the way customers experience Harness — ensuring fairness, precision, and performance in a system that’s as core to the platform as compute, storage, or security.
What you’ll do
- Lead a distributed team of engineers to build and operate large-scale, low-latency services capable of processing millions of usage events daily.
- Architect and implement the core event processing and data infrastructure behind usage tracking, metering, billing, and licensing across the Harness product suite.
- Partner with product and platform teams to define APIs, data contracts, and architecture that ensure seamless, real-time customer visibility into usage and costs.
- Drive excellence in operability, reliability, and performance, building systems that can scale effortlessly and self-heal under load.
- Stay hands-on — review code, contribute to key architectural components, and mentor engineers to push technical boundaries.
- Shape the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for how Harness manages value exchange at platform scale.
- Leadership depth: 3+ years leading high-performing backend or platform engineering teams.
- Technical mastery: 5+ years building SaaS platforms in Java or Go, with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and data-intensive pipelines.
- Scalability mindset: Strong experience in event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.) and low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Customer impact focus: A track record of building systems that deliver clarity, reliability, and trust to enterprise customers.
- Operational excellence: Skilled in managing on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.
- Collaborative DNA: Comfortable working across global teams, product boundaries, and complex technical domains.
- You’ll own a core platform that every Harness product depends on — shaping business models, enabling innovation, and driving transparency for customers.
- You’ll work with world-class engineers on problems of scale, data integrity, and reliability that few startups get to tackle this early.
- You’ll be part of an organization that believes in autonomy, ownership, and engineering excellence — where great ideas move fast from design to production.
- 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
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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.
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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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