Engineering Architect

B Capital; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Harness, Bengaluru-based, seeks an Architect to own the technical direction of Continuous Delivery. You will define the multi-year vision for the CD platform, solve the hardest deployment challenges, and act as the authoritative technical voice across the CD org and with customers.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive architecture across teams, and contribute to production-ready capabilities with a hands-on approach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 15+ years of backend software development with large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD or similar platform.
• Strong hands-on experience with JVM languages (Java/Kotlin) and/or Golang; Kubernetes expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture of the CD product suite: deployment orchestration, pipeline execution, canary deployments, and automated rollback safety.
• Set the multi-year technical roadmap for CD, aligning with broader Harness engineering strategy.
• Remain hands-on: build critical POCs, write production code for hard deployment problems, and prototype new capabilities.
• Serve as the definitive CD expert to customers, partners, and executives.
• Drive cross-team architectural alignment and broker reusable solutions across teams.
• Mentor Principal/Senior Engineers and champion technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Author specs and design documents; perform peer reviews of specs, designs, and code.
• Collaborate with SREs to diagnose and resolve production performance, reliability, and scale issues.

Skills

Backend dev

Distributed systems

Microservices

Java/Kotlin

Golang

gRPC

Kubernetes

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Docker

Kafka/Kafka Streams

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

Job description

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

Our CD platform is redefining how modern teams deploy software enabling safe, automated, intelligent deployments at scale with AI-driven deployment verification, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks. Customers rely on Harness CD to ship with confidence, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate release velocity.

We’re looking for an Architect to own the technical direction of Continuous Delivery, a high-revenue product line poised for 4x growth. You’ll set the multi-year architectural vision for CD, stay deeply hands-on solving the hardest deployment problems, and act as the definitive technical authority across the CD organization and with customers.

About the Role

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the CD product suite deployment orchestration, pipeline execution, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), and automated rollback safety.
• Set the multi-year technical roadmap for CD, making build/buy and investment decisions that align with broader Harness engineering strategy.
• Stay deeply hands-on: build critical POCs and MVPs, write production code for the hardest problems, and prototype new deployment capabilities.
• Serve as the definitive CD subject-matter expert representing Harness to customers, partners, and internal leadership, and presenting to executives.
• Drive cross-team architectural alignment: prevent redundant efforts, harden shared assets for reuse, and broker solutions across engineering leadership.
• Mentor and elevate Principal and Senior Engineers; champion a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents; perform peer reviews of specs, designs, and code.
• Partner with SREs to diagnose and resolve production performance, reliability, and scale issues.

About You

Must-haves

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of backend software development, with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and microservices.
• Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD, GitOps, deployment, or software-delivery platform (or comparable high-throughput orchestration system).
• Deep hands-on expertise in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) and/or Golang, gRPC-based microservices.
• Expert-level Kubernetes: deployment models, operators, multi-cluster/multi-cloud, plus observability and alerting.
• Strong command of low-level API design and core distributed-systems principles.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, driving multi-team roadmaps, and advising leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux) or progressive-delivery frameworks.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Terraform, and Helm.
• Background building developer or DevOps products.
• Open-source contributions to relevant CDF/CNCF projects.

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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