Harness

Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering)

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3 days ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$170k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed within customer engineering organizations to design and build agent-driven automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Write production code connecting Harness AI Agents to customer pipelines, repositories, ITSM tooling, security systems, and infrastructure.
  • Translate approved plans into working software by partnering directly with customer engineers and Harness delivery teams.
  • Prototype, ship incrementally, and iterate with customer engineers until integrations are live in production.
  • Create reusable patterns and templates, share feedback with Harness product and engineering teams, and support customer transition to steady-state operation.
  • Travel to customer sites for active build engagements as needed.

Requirements

  • Platform engineering or software engineering background with hands-on coding, scripting, integration, and experience working in customer codebases, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD frameworks.
  • Experience building integrations against APIs, event-driven systems, or LLM and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Prior experience in forward-deployed, solutions engineering, architecture, or embedded consulting work measured by working software delivery.
  • Strong grounding in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, plus depth in an adjacent domain such as security, observability, or cost management.
  • Ability to work from business objectives and agent capability boundaries to create working integrations without a pre-written specification.
  • Excellent stakeholder communication skills and ability to work directly with customer engineers while aligning internal stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary of $170,000—$200,000 USD.
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
  • Flexible work schedule, Flexible Time Off, Parental Leave, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events.
  • Monthly internet reimbursement.
  • Remote work with frequent travel, up to 50%.

Tech Stack

Harness

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Harness

1,001-5,000 employees

Harness builds a SaaS platform for software delivery, combining CI/CD, feature flags, cloud cost management, reliability, and security tooling for engineering and DevOps teams. The privately held company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, sells to enterprises adopting cloud and Kubernetes. Notable customers include United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels, and its offerings span testing, deployments, governance, and automation across the software delivery lifecycle.

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