About this Engineering Manager - CI role at Harness
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
Harness is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Harness Cloud platform, the infrastructure foundation powering Continuous Integration (CI) and several other Harness products. This is a unique opportunity to lead engineers building one of the industry's most scalable cloud-native execution platforms, responsible for securely orchestrating build infrastructure across thousands of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and bare-metal systems.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a highly technical team responsible for architecting, scaling, securing, and operating the cloud platform that powers millions of build executions. You'll partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Customer Success, and Principal Engineers to deliver highly available infrastructure that enables developers worldwide to build software faster, more securely, and at massive scale.
This role is ideal for leaders who enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, growing high-performing engineering teams, and remaining deeply engaged in technical architecture and execution.
About the Role
The Harness Cloud platform forms the foundation for Continuous Integration (CI) and several other Harness products. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for scaling and evolving the cloud infrastructure that powers our global software delivery platform.
You will:
- Lead a team building the Harness Cloud platform, including lifecycle management of a large fleet of virtual machines, bare-metal infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments.
- Drive the architecture, scalability, security, and reliability of distributed cloud infrastructure powering millions of CI workloads.
- Partner with Product Management to define technical roadmaps and deliver capabilities that improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, and customer experience.
- Work closely with Principal Engineers to define long-term technical strategy and architecture for the Harness Cloud platform.
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering, SRE, and Customer Success teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed infrastructure.
- Foster engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design discussions, peer code reviews, and operational best practices.
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvements in observability, resiliency, and operational maturity.
- Recruit, mentor, and grow engineers and technical leaders while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.
- Balance execution of customer commitments with long-term investments in platform scalability, automation, and developer productivity.
About you
Proven Engineering Leader
- 3+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering distributed infrastructure or cloud platform services.
- Proven track record of mentoring engineers while driving technical execution and organizational growth.
Cloud Infrastructure Expertise
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building cloud-native infrastructure, backend systems, or distributed platforms using Golang, Java, or similar languages.
- Strong experience operating infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Distributed Systems
Strong understanding of:
- Distributed systems
- Virtual Machine lifecycle management
- Container technologies
- Networking
- Storage systems
- Kubernetes
- High availability and fault tolerance
Technical Leadership
- Experience authoring architecture documents and technical specifications.
- Ability to break down complex technical problems into executable engineering plans.
- Comfortable driving technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.
Operational Excellence
Experience with:
- Production operations
- Incident management
- Observability
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Performance optimization
- Capacity planning
- Reliability engineering
Customer Focus
- Passionate about building infrastructure that improves developer productivity.
- Comfortable partnering with customer-facing teams to diagnose production issues and influence product direction.
Harness in the news:
- Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
- Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
- How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
- Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
- Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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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.
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