Principal Cloud Engineer

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.

• Co-own our overall infrastructure with the rest of our infrastructure team.

• Design and implement the infrastructure needed to support our product teams.

• Define and document infrastructure and operational patterns.

• Scale our team and infrastructure through automation and proactive improvements.

• Contribute to meeting our security standards and compliance requirements.

• Measure and improve reliability, availability, and performance metrics across systems.

• Advocate for and implement best practices in reliability and observability.

• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to incidents and drive root cause analysis.

• Experience with cloud platforms: Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Opentofu.

• Configuration management

• Containerization and orchestration: Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and managed solutions like EKS or GKE.

• Scripting and automation: Proficiency in Bash, Python, or similar languages for automating tasks.

Reliability Engineering Expertise:

• Observability: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog).

• Incident response: Familiarity with incident management tools like PagerDuty or OpsGenie, and experience in post-mortem/root cause analysis.

• Performance tuning: Knowledge of analyzing and optimizing system performance (e.g., CPU, memory, storage, and network).

Networking and Web Services:

• Networking knowledge: Excellent understanding of Internet technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, etc.).

• CDNs and DNS: Familiarity with tools like Fastly, Cloudflare, Akamai, or similar.

Cultural Fit and Collaboration:

• Passion for automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency.

• A proactive approach to improving systems and processes.

• A desire to learn, teach, and collaborate across teams.

Security and Compliance (Optional but Valued):

• Knowledge of infrastructure and application security principles.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) and how they impact infrastructure.

Additional Bonus Skills:

• Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing.

• Knowledge of database administration and tuning for reliability.

• Familiarity with cost-optimization strategies for cloud resources.

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What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

• 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.

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.