Software Engineering Manager

Job Description Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace. Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank. Harness is seeking a dynamic Engineering Manager to lead the charge in building the next generation of innovations in Continuous Delivery (CD). This isn't just another leadership roleit's a unique opportunity to design and deliver impactful features that delight customers, drive ARR growth, and strengthen our leadership in the DevOps space. In this role, you'll guide a distributed engineering team spanning multiple geographies, developing new capabilities on top of our platform. You'll collaborate closely with customers to address escalations, refine feature requirements, and make strategic product decisions that shape the evolution of our CD offering. We're looking for a leader who's not only strong in backend technologies (Java, Go) but also enjoys staying hands-on with code. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, embraces ambiguity, and consistently transforms complex challenges into measurable impact. If you bring energy, innovation, and a passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences, this is your chance to redefine how enterprises deploy softwareand leave your mark on the future of DevOps. About The Role - Harness is a market leader in DevOps, constantly innovating to deliver cutting-edge features and expand into new deployment areas. As an Engineering Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in advancing this visionstaying closely aligned with our customers, building features that attract new users, and expanding adoption across our existing customer base. - You'll collaborate with exceptional engineers and architects, driving key technology decisions that power the world-class features distinguishing our product from the competition. - As a technical leader, you'll champion code quality, performance, and best practicesensuring that every line of code is robust, scalable, and production-ready. Beyond execution, you'll shape and evolve our technical vision, define forward-looking roadmaps, and inspire your team to innovate and push boundaries. This role isn't just about managing a teamit's about building a world-class product that strengthens our position as a leader in the DevOps market. About You - Proven Leader: 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams, balancing technical depth with people leadership. - Builder's Mindset: 5+ years building SaaS applications in backend (Java/Go) roles, with a passion for hands-on architecture and coding. - Organization Builder: A track record of assembling and scaling world-class engineering orgs. - Global Collaborator: Comfortable leading teams and working with customers across time zones. - Customer-Obsessed: You've directly influenced customer satisfaction and know what it takes to deliver mission-critical, customer-facing software. - Performance-Driven: Skilled in building multi-tenant SAAS platforms that deliver seamless user experiences. - Battle-Tested: Strong command of managing production incidents and leading effective on-call rotations. - Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, logging and Performance optimisation in large-scale systems. - Hands-on experience in various Cloud Platforms or Kubernetes is highly desirable - Technically Grounded: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience. Harness In The News - Harness AI Tackles Software Development's Real Bottleneck - After Vibe Coding Comes Vibe Testing (Almost) - Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness) - Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards - Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger - Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments - Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations. If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [Confidential Information]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission's website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.