Senior Sales Engineer - Federal

Armory; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 250,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare benefits

FSA

EAP

Parental leave

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Harness in Washington, DC seeks a Federal Sales Engineer to bridge sales and engineering, articulating platform value to executives and technical teams. You will drive demonstrations, respond to RFIs/RFPs, and guide customers through technical engagements.

Ideal candidates combine software development or DevOps experience with strong cloud knowledge and Terraform expertise, and are willing to travel within the territory. Federal experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Deliver strong product demonstrations that tell a value story to executives.
• Explain how workflows map to business outcomes and technical value.
• Articulate platform benefits during RFIs/RFPs and customer inquiries.
• Collaborate with engineering to convey customer requirements.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compelling product demonstrations and presentations of Harness.
• Work directly with customers to debug common deployment errors.
• Tie business problems to technical solutions and craft value propositions.
• Drive complex technical engagements to prove Harness value.
• Represent the product at field events and conferences.

Skills

Presentation skills

Customer debugging

Tech storytelling

DevOps experience

RFIs/RFPs

Terraform

Travel readiness

Federal experience

Tools

Terraform

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 Federal Sales Engineer lives and works in the intersection between sales and engineering. The ideal candidate must be able to articulate technology and product positioning at the executive, business and technical levels. Sales Engineers are the primary technical support for the sales force and are responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process. They are there to ensure success with all Harness customers and strategize with their sales counterparts to steer customers to a commercial relationship.

ABOUT THE ROLE

World class presentation skills in delivering presentations/demos of our platform
Able to work with customers directly to debug common errors
Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions
Capable of understanding and articulating technology value propositions
Drive complex technical engagements with customers to prove the value of Harness solutions

ABOUT YOU

You will be responsible for delivering a great product demonstration which tells a story of how our software provides value to our customer
You will be responsible for representing the product to customers and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.
You will remain knowledgeable and up-to-date on changes and developments on our technologies
You either actively develop software, have a prior background as a developer, or worked with developers in a DevOps role
Strong cloud knowledge, you worked with infrastructure automation such as Terraform
You are able to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
You are able to convey customer requirements to Engineering teams
You are able to travel throughout a sales territory with minimal restrictions and occasionally on short notice
Federal Experience is a plus

WORK LOCATION

• Washington, DC

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESS

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
• Recharge & Reset Program
• Monthly internet reimbursement
• Commuter benefits

Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills, experience, qualifications, location, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.

A valid authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

Pay transparency

$250,000 — $285,000 USD

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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