Senior Product Security Engineer

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.

Overview:

The Senior Product Security Engineer will lead efforts to secure the Harness software by embedding security into every stage of the development lifecycle. This role involves vulnerability management, internal adoption of cutting-edge security solutions, and enabling teams to shift left on security while safeguarding the software supply chain.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead identification, triage, and remediation of vulnerabilities across the Harness platform and modules, partnering with engineering teams to establish SLAs and track progress.
• Collaborate with engineers to perform threat modeling for new and existing features, identifying risks early and providing actionable recommendations.
• Promote and implement Harness STO and SCS modules internally to demonstrate security best practices and drive adoption.
• Develop and integrate security controls and checks into CI/CD workflows to detect issues before deployment.
• Establish robust processes for software supply chain security, including dependency management and artifact integrity verification using SLSA.
• Stay updated on emerging threats targeting software supply chains and adjust strategies proactively.
• Plan and execute periodic penetration tests to uncover vulnerabilities and validate security controls, working with internal teams and external testers.
• Leverage expertise in security scanners and tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA) to ensure consistent testing and reporting.
• Evaluate and recommend security tools to align with organizational needs and improve testing coverage.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and DevOps teams to foster a security-first mindset through training and enablement.
• Support compliance initiatives by aligning product security practices with regulatory standards and maintaining audit documentation.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate potential security weaknesses early in the development lifecycle.
• Enhance automation for vulnerability management and reporting to improve visibility and response time.
• Collaborate with incident response teams to investigate and remediate product-related security incidents.

Qualifications

• Proven 4 to 6 years of experience in product security, vulnerability management, and secure software development lifecycle practices.
• Hands-on expertise with security tools such as OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Prisma Cloud, Semgrep, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD processes, tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness), and shift-left security approaches.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices, threat modeling methodologies, and supply chain security principles.
• Familiarity with different types of security testing SAST, DAST, IaC, SCA) and proficiency in evaluating scanning tools.
• Experience scripting or coding in Python, Go, or for automation and security tooling.
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering and DevOps teams to embed security practices effectively.
• Passion for fostering a security-first culture through enablement, training, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills to convey technical security concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and securing containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience scripting or automating security workflows using Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with modern IaC and cloud security scanning tools (e.g., Checkov, Prisma, Trivy).

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• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags , 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.

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