Forward Deployed Engineer

Split Software; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefit

Flexible work schedule

Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

Team building events

Job summary

Harness Bengaluru seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to architect DevSecOps, FinOps and Engineering Excellence solutions for enterprise customers. You will collaborate with internal and customer teams to design scalable, governance-driven deployments.

You will drive best practices, automation, and customer success, while interfacing with executives to ensure business-aligned outcomes. Flexible work schedules and travel up to 25% may apply.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in CS or related field with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with DevSecOps/CI/CD tooling and governance.
• Familiarity with AI tooling and integrating AI into developer workflows is highly preferred.
• External customer-facing experience is a plus.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customer technical teams to analyze current DevSecOps/CI/CD tools and governance processes.
• Architect and implement an optimized Harness setup for integration, scale, and repeatability.
• Interface with customer executives to align technical goals with business objectives and success criteria.
• Craft best practices, automate client implementations, and contribute to reference patterns.
• Document onboarding processes and contribute to knowledge bases.
• Collaborate with pre-sales and post-sales to ensure customer success.

Skills

Team collaboration

Communication

Detail-oriented

Analytical thinking

Learning mindset

Education

B.S. in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Terraform

AWS

OpenShift

Azure

GCP

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

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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