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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.\nPowered 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. \nOver 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. \nWith 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.\nPosition Summary\nHarness is seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to lead the team building the Harness Cloud platform, the infrastructure foundation powering Continuous Delivery (CD) and several other Harness products. This is a unique opportunity to lead engineers building one of the industry's most scalable cloud-native execution platforms, responsible for securely orchestrating build infrastructure across thousands of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and bare-metal systems.\nAs an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a highly technical team responsible for architecting, scaling, securing, and operating the cloud platform that powers millions of build executions. You'll partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Customer Success, and Principal Engineers to deliver highly available infrastructure that enables developers worldwide to build software faster, more securely, and at massive scale.\nThis role is ideal for leaders who enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, growing high-performing engineering teams, and remaining deeply engaged in technical architecture and execution.\nAbout the Role\nThe Harness Cloud platform forms the foundation for Continuous Delivery (CD) and several other Harness products. As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team responsible for scaling and evolving the cloud infrastructure that powers our global software delivery platform.\nYou will:\nLead a team building the Harness Cloud platform, including lifecycle management of a large fleet of virtual machines, bare-metal infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments.\nDrive the architecture, scalability, security, and reliability of distributed cloud infrastructure powering millions of CI workloads.\nPartner with Product Management to define technical roadmaps and deliver capabilities that improve platform scalability, reliability, performance, and customer experience.\nWork closely with Principal Engineers to define long-term technical strategy and architecture for the Harness Cloud platform.\nCollaborate with Cloud Engineering, SRE, and Customer Success teams to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed infrastructure.\nFoster engineering excellence through architecture reviews, design discussions, peer code reviews, and operational best practices.\nLead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvements in observability, resiliency, and operational maturity.\nRecruit, mentor, and grow engineers and technical leaders while building an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture.\nBalance execution of customer commitments with long-term investments in platform scalability, automation, and developer productivity.\nAbout You\nProven Engineering Leader\n3+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering distributed infrastructure or cloud platform services.\nProven track record of mentoring engineers while driving technical execution and organizational growth.\nDistributed Systems\nStrong understanding of:\nDistributed systems\nVirtual Machine lifecycle management\nContainer technologies\nNetworking\nStorage systems\nKubernetes\nHigh availability and fault tolerance\nTechnical Leadership\nProven ability to build highly scalable saas services\nExperience authoring architecture documents and technical specifications.\nAbility to break down complex technical problems into executable engineering plans.\nComfortable driving technical decisions across multiple engineering teams.\nOperational Excellence\nExperience with:\nProduction operations\nIncident management\nObservability\nMonitoring\nLogging\nPerformance optimization\nCapacity planning\nReliability engineering\nCustomer Focus\nPassionate about building infrastructure that improves developer productivity.\nComfortable partnering with customer-facing teams to diagnose production issues and influence product direction.\nHarness in the news:\nAccelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code\nGoldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation\nHow Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal\nHarness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare\nHarness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.\nAt Harness, we care about your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. For additional information on this topic, you can visit our privacy Portal: https://harness-privacy.relyance.ai/\nNote on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers\nWe 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. \nPlease 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.\nIf 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 . 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.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7381,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["DevOps & Platform Engineering","Code Intelligence","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-23T08:14:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":96,"reasons":["conf:1","urgency","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T00:29:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":542,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7218},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7218"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fharness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fharness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fharness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/harness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fharness-engineering-manager-software-engineering-cd"}]}