5 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Coordinate collaborative engineering efforts across multiple teams and align decisions with strategic plans.
- Prevent redundant work by hardening existing assets for broad reuse.
- Solve Harness’s most difficult technical problems involving modern software delivery and distributed systems.
- Lead technical initiatives, resource planning, project mapping, success criteria, and roadmap execution.
- Mentor engineers, champion continuous improvement, and promote innovation across the organization.
- Interface with senior engineering leadership, present to executives, and provide visibility into project deliverables and planning.
- Gather escalations, remove blockers, broker solutions with cross-functional leadership, and enable project teams.
- Represent projects with external customers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Participate in architecture and hiring committees and advise leadership on resourcing and efficiency.
Requirements
- 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Deep hands-on expertise in modern software delivery or building complex distributed systems.
- Advanced experience with Java, Golang, or comparable programming languages.
- Depth of experience in distributed systems.
- Advanced Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the Bangalore office.
- Competitive salary.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off with four days off.
- Paid time off and parental leave.
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events.
- Monthly internet reimbursement.
- End-to-end ownership of projects and the opportunity to build a transformative product.
About Harness
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.