Engineering Manager - CI

Harness Inc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Harness Inc. is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Harness Cloud platform, the infrastructure foundation powering CI and other products.

You will guide engineers across VM fleets, Kubernetes environments, and bare-metal systems, focusing on scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure. You will partner with Product Management, SRE, and Customer Success to deliver capabilities that improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, and developer

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams delivering distributed infrastructure or cloud platform services.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building cloud-native infrastructure or distributed platforms.
• Experience with Golang, Java; strong exposure to AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building the Harness Cloud platform, managing large fleets of VMs, Kubernetes, and bare-metal infra.
• Drive architecture, scalability, security, and reliability of distributed cloud infrastructure powering CI workloads.
• Collaborate with Product Management to define roadmaps and with SRE/Customer Success to resolve production issues.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Mentoring engineers

Distributed systems

Tools

Golang

Java

AWS

GCP

Azure

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

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.
• 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
• Container technologies
• Networking
• Storage systems
• 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
• Observability
• Monitoring
• 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.

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

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