Principal Software Engineer- CD

Harness; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare benefits

Flexible work schedule

Parental leave

Job summary

Harness is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead cross-platform initiatives from our Bangalore office. You will guide complex projects, mentor teams, and drive architectural decisions across geographies to accelerate software delivery with governance and security in mind.

You will contribute deep domain expertise, collaborate with product and design, and champion high-impact engineering initiatives within Harness' portfolio of products and services.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one major area: Modern Software Delivery or distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-team technical initiatives and drive alignment with sub-department goals.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of improvement and robustness.
• Plan resource, project mapping, and success criteria for large engineering programs.
• Solve high-complexity technical problems and present progress to executives.
• Engage with customers/partners to represent Harness technical stance and roadmap.

Skills

Java

Golang

Distributed systems

OO design

Education

Advanced Computer Science degree

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

The Harness Engineering team is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead complex cross platform initiatives and lead technical projects across geographies. Principal Engineers are recognized experts in Harness' technology domain, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization. Principal Engineers carry the responsibility of steering the course for their organizational segment, partnering with senior leadership, prioritizing initiatives to achieve a range of objectives.

Principal Engineers at Harness

Poses a careful blend of domain specific engineering expertise and world class technical leadership. There are a number of competencies that a Principal Engineer must display.

• Technical Competencies
  • In depth tactical knowledge of the domain, yet broad experience and skill sets
  • Domain and product expert when representing harness with customers and internal teams alike.
  • Seamlessly include, promote and balance cross functional inputs from Product, Design, Enablement
  • Break down complex technical requirements to motivate and lead cross-functional teams
  • Consider the execution needed today, into the future, make investments aligned with broader impact
• Leadership Competencies
  • Demonstrable experience in executing on one, or multiple roadmap through working with others, finding the ROI in organized efforts
  • Subject matter and domain expertise applied to develop others internal and external to Harness
  • In depth understanding of product features and roadmaps, how customers engage with the product in your space
  • Clear displays of improving execution via process optimization, or other meansNatural advisor to leadership on resourcing constraints, efficiencies.
  • Practice and evangelize Harness core values
  • Participate and contribute to Architecture Committees, Hiring Committees, and others that are formed to solve issues across the org, and company

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates and proposes collaborative efforts across multiple teams in engineering, guiding team members to make well-informed decisions that align with the strategic plans of the respective sub-department.
• Proactively seeks to prevent redundant efforts, taking existing assets and hardening them for broad re-usability
• Apply your expertise in a mentorship capacity, to others in the organization. Champion a culture of improvement.
• Participate in resource planning, project mapping, and success criteria for large engineering initiatives
• Responds swiftly to the needs of today. Plan diligently for the needs of tomorrow
• Solve the most difficult technical problems at Harness.
• Interfaces with senior engineering leadership on project deliverables and planning. Create visibility and presents to executives when needed
• Lead and inspire innovation at the highest order across Harness' portfolio of products and services
• Propose POCs and optimizations regularly
• Align the goals of module sub-teams with the overall goals of Harness Engineering
• Gather escalations from your project team, remove blockers, enable your project team, broker solutions with cross functional engineering leadership
• Represent your project to external customers, partners or other stakeholders.
• You are the Harness SME for most, if not all domains in your area of expertise

About You

• 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: Modern Software Delivery, building complex distributed systems
• Demonstrable experience in advanced Java, Golang, or comparable programing languages.
• Depth of experience in distributed systems
• Advanced Computer Science degree, or equivalent experience.

Work Location

• This position is a hybrid role that will require the person to work from our Bangalore Office 3 days a week.

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

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

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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