Forward Deployed Engineer

Harness; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefit

Flexible work schedule

TGIF-Off 4 days

PTO & Parental Leave

Internet reimbursement

Job summary

Harness is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to architect and implement DevSecOps, FinOps, and Engineering Excellence solutions for enterprise customers. You will collaborate with Harness Engineering and client teams to design scalable, secure deployments and craft best practices for automation and onboarding.

Join a high-growth organization focused on AI‑assisted software delivery with opportunities across DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Finance functions. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in CS or Computer Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in DevSecOps/CI‑CD environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with AI tooling in developer workflows is a plus.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customer teams to analyze DevSecOps/CI‑CD tools and governance.
• Architect and implement optimized Harness deployments for scale and repeatability.
• Interface with senior customers to align technical goals with business outcomes.
• Create automation patterns from engagement learnings and document them.
• Contribute to product design and build a knowledge base for enablement.
• Consult on DevSecOps/CI‑CD best practices and processes.
• Collaborate with Pre‑/Post‑sales to ensure high customer satisfaction.

Skills

DevOps

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Education

BA/BS in CS or Computer Engineering

Tools

OpenShift

Helm

Kustomize

PCF

Jira

Terraform

CloudFormation

Linux

Prometheus

ELK

Splunk

New Relic

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.

Position Summary

In this role, which will require you to act as a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) when required, you will be working with internal and external stakeholders to architect, design and implement DevSecOps, FinOps and Engineering Excellence solutions for enterprise customers. You will have an opportunity to work with Harness Engineering and various customer functions, such as DevOps, SRE, Cloud, Finance and Engineering Analytics teams. You will develop best practices and automations to streamline Harness platform deployments in the most efficient, scalable, repeatable and reliable manner possible. We’re a high‑growth company on a once‑in‑a‑lifetime journey to revolutionize engineering deployment tools & continuous delivery.

What You Will Do

• Engage with our customer's technical teams to analyze and understand current DevSecOps/CI/CD/Policy & Template Governance tools and processes
• Architect and implement an optimized Harness setup for integration, scale, and repeatability
• Interface with the Customer's Executive and Leadership teams to understand the technical goals and business objectives related to their CI/CD process, design their Harness implementation to best fit those requirements, and correlate the technical success criteria to the business requirements
• Provide positive anecdotes from each engagement, craft best practices around Customer implementations, convert them into automation and create reference patterns
• Document and implement processes and solutions that are employed for onboarding success for the purpose of internal enablement
• Contribute to the product design, assist in the Harness Community, and for building out of an advanced technical knowledge base
• Consult on DevSecOps/CI/CD best practices, processes, solutions, etc.
• Interact with customers on a professional, meaningful and technically deep level
• Work closely with Pre-sales and Post-sales teams to ensure that Harness customers are successful and experience a high level of customer satisfaction with the Harness solution.

About You

• BA/BS degree in CS or Computer Engineering-related field with 3+ years of relevant experience
• 2+ Experience with DevOps and including some multiple of the following solutions preferred: Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, Gitlab, Bamboo, TeamCity, TravisCI, Bitbucket, Jira, ServiceNow, Helm, Kustomize, PCF, OpenShift, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Linux, Python, Bash, Powershell, AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, Instana, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, Sumo Logic, etc.
• Familiarity or experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tooling and frameworks, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), integrating AI into developer workflows, or utilizing AI-assisted software delivery platforms, is highly preferred.
• Experience delivering custom solutions to customers of all sizes, whether internal or external (external customer-facing experience a plus).
• You are a perpetual learner, thrive in a team setting, enjoy sharing your experience and solutions, consistently pursuing excellence and success in all your tasks, detail-oriented and analytical, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Results-driven individual with a hunger for accomplishing in fast paced environments and a knack for optimizing processes
• Willingness to travel up to 25%

What You Will Have At Harness

• Experience building a transformative product
• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Flexible work schedule
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

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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