Engineering Manager

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.

• Migrated authentication to support login through app.harness.io.
• Rebuilt the permission system, moving from a non-scalable approach to an RBAC-based model.
• Improved UX and adapted our UI to function as a microfrontend within app.harness.io.
• Developed tooling for other teams, including authorization libraries and GCP secrets management.

What’s Next:

• Strengthen our position as the leading feature flag platform in the industry.
• Integrate with Harness Pipelines to enhance governance and enforce best practices.
• Adopt OPA policies to help customers implement standardized security and compliance.

Leverage AI to improve end-to-end testing and reduce tech debt.

• Lead and support a team of engineers, focusing on their growth and development.
• Work closely with Product to prioritize initiatives, balancing business needs with engineering-driven improvements.
• Drive execution by ensuring clear goals, efficient sprint planning, and strong team collaboration.
• Ensure alignment between engineering efforts and business priorities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical and process guidance, ensuring best practices in development and Agile methodologies.
• Onboard new engineers and help integrate them into the team’s mission and workflows.

• Experience managing an engineering team, with a strong focus on people development.
• Background in engineering leadership, with hands-on experience in software development (coding is not required but valued).
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience running sprints.
• Ability to prioritize and manage both engineering and business-driven initiatives.
• Strong collaboration skills with Product teams and other stakeholders.
• Experience with feature flagging is a plus but not required.

• Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
• Welcome Split!
• SF Business Times - 2024 - 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area
• Forbes - 2024 America's Best Startup Employers
• SF Business Times - 2024 Fastest Growing Private Companies Awards
• Fast Co - 2024 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 

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.