Senior Director, Software Engineering

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.

Split / Harness' Feature Measurement and Experimentation product and engineering teams process and leverage data from over 1 trillion monthly events, empowering product, engineering, and business decisions. By delivering feature flags, data-driven insights, metrics, and tools, our platform helps companies across industries accelerate product delivery safely and effectively. It enables teams to understand the value of their features through a data-driven, scientific approach and iterate quickly to maximize business impact.

As the Leader of the Measurement and Experimentation Engineering Teams, you will play a strategic and impactful role. These teams are responsible for building a platform that ingests and processes large volumes of data while integrating cutting-edge data technologies. From this data, they generate insights that help customers make informed decisions about releasing changes. You’ll collaborate with technical leaders to define a technical strategy, roadmap, and execution plan while contributing to the broader engineering and company strategies.

• Lead and support the measurement and experimentation engineering team in product delivery.
• Recruit, grow, and retain top talent across geographically distributed teams.
• Focus on optimizing performance and ensuring high availability of production systems.
• Partner with Product Management to define product strategy and roadmap.
• Work with teams to define technical strategies, roadmaps, and operational improvements.
• Collaborate with the VP of Engineering to drive engineering strategy and contribute to company objectives.
• Manage team culture, communication, and cohesion.

• Experience:
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in the software industry, including the data engineering or analytics space.
• 5+ years of people management experience, leading multiple teams and managers.
• Technical Expertise:
• Deep understanding of the processes and architecture of web and cloud services.
• Solid experience or knowledge of data ingestion, processing, performance, and scalability in large-scale data platforms.
• Strong technical foundation in coding, scaling, testing, and operating services, with the ability to contribute effectively to technical discussions.
• Leadership Skills:
• Passionate about mentoring and helping people grow professionally.
• Excellent communication skills, able to synthesize and explain complex problems to diverse audiences.
• Proven track record of successful collaboration with teams, peers, and leadership.
• Methodology:
• Proficient in Agile principles with a history of practical application.

Harness' Split Feature Management and Experimentation product is the leading platform for feature experimentation, enabling businesses of all sizes to make smarter product decisions. Companies like Salesforce, GoDaddy, and Twilio rely on Split to:

• Securely release new features.
• Target features to specific customer segments.
• Measure the impact of features on customer experience metrics.

Mountain View, CA

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.