Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
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As a Staff Cloud Engineer at Harness, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems, incorporating a blend of Cloud Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. This role requires a strong technical background, a passion for innovation, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure using GCP, AWS or Azure.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
- Implement SRE practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services.
- Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect and address issues proactively.
- Perform capacity planning and demand forecasting to ensure system scalability and performance.
- Deploy, manage, and scale applications using Kubernetes (K8s).
- Utilize Helm for packaging, deploying, and managing applications on Kubernetes.
- Design and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the delivery of applications and infrastructure.
- Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure and applications meet security and compliance standards.
- Implement security best practices and perform regular security audits and assessments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and operations to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or related roles.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native services.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform), Helm package manager and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Experience with SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and incident management.
- Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCM).
- Expertise in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Strong coding skills (Python, Go, etc.) and familiarity with version control systems (Git).
- Understanding of security best practices for cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Experience with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS) is a plus.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and innovative approach.
- Bangalore Hybrid - 3 days per week
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive healthcare benefit
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
- Recharge & Reset Program
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
- Welcome Split!
- Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022
- Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From
- #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list
- #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For
- #47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For
- #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers
- 2021 Career Launching Companies List
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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What We Do
Based in San Francisco, Harness is the industry’s first Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and redu
Why Work With Us
Customers love the product. We believe in results, not silos and politics. We’re growing like wildfire. Overall, Harness is an awesome place to either start your career — or take it to the next level.
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