Harness

Forward Deployed Engineer (Implementation Engineering)

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14 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise customer engineering teams to design and build agent-driven automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Write production code and scripts connecting Harness AI Agents to customer pipelines, repositories, ITSM tooling, security systems, and infrastructure.
  • Partner with customer engineers and Harness delivery teams to translate approved plans into working software.
  • Prototype, ship incrementally, and iterate directly with customer engineers through production launch.
  • Create reusable implementation patterns and share them with the broader Harness delivery organization.
  • Provide feedback to Harness product and engineering teams based on customer implementations.
  • Support the transition from custom implementation to customer-operated steady-state use.

Requirements

  • Background in platform engineering or software engineering with hands-on coding, scripting, and integration experience.
  • Experience working directly in customer codebases, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD frameworks.
  • Experience building integrations with APIs, event-driven systems, or LLM and agent orchestration frameworks.
  • Prior experience in forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, architecture, or embedded consulting focused on delivering working software.
  • 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.
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills and ability to work directly with customer engineers.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites for the duration of active build engagements.

Benefits

  • Global team operating across 26 offices and 27 countries.
  • Travel to customer sites is required during active build engagements.

Tech Stack

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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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