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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 looking for a Principal / Director of Product Management to lead our Code & Container Security portfolio. This role owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for securing software throughout development, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), AI-generated code security, and emerging agent security capabilities.\nAs software development evolves through AI-assisted coding, autonomous workflows, and agentic systems, you will help define the future of Code Security. You will work closely with customers, engineering, security research, and go-to-market teams to build products that help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate risks across both human-written and AI-generated software\nAbout the role\nOwn the vision, strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes for Harness Code & Container Security.\nLead product strategy across SAST, SCA, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, and AI-assisted remediation.\nDefine security capabilities for modern software development, including AI-generated code security, prompt scanning, skill and tool scanning, and agent security testing.\nDrive strategy for open-source risk management, dependency governance, software supply chain security, and automated remediation.\nDevelop a deep understanding of the Code Security market and emerging AI-native security approaches to drive product differentiation and long-term strategy.\nEvaluate how AI coding assistants, LLMs, agents, and autonomous development workflows are changing the way software is built and secured.\nPartner with engineering and security research teams to deliver innovative security capabilities at scale.\nEngage directly with enterprise customers to understand security challenges, validate product strategy, and influence roadmap priorities.\nCollaborate with sales, marketing, customer success, and analyst relations teams to drive adoption, customer value, and market leadership.\nDefine and track key product metrics including adoption, detection quality, remediation effectiveness, developer experience, and revenue growth.\nMentor and develop product managers while helping scale the Code Security product organization\nAbout you\n7-10 years of product management experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, Developer Platforms, or Security Engineering.\nDeep understanding of SAST, SCA, vulnerability management, secure software development practices, and CI/CD workflows.\nStrong knowledge of open-source security, dependency management, and software supply chain risks.\nExperience defining product strategy, executing roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes.\nStrong understanding of developer workflows and enterprise software development practices.\nExcellent communication, customer engagement, and stakeholder management skills.\nAbility to work effectively across engineering, research, design, sales, and executive leadership teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building or leading Application Security, DevSecOps, or Developer Security products.\nFamiliarity with AI security, AI coding assistants, LLM-powered development workflows, or agentic systems.\nUnderstanding of program analysis, dependency graphs, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, or automated remediation.\nTechnical background in software engineering, security engineering, or developer tooling.\nExperience working with enterprise-scale software platforms and security programs.\nWhy Join Harness\nDefine the future of Code Security in the age of AI.\nBuild products that secure both human-written and AI-generated software.\nShape the industry's transition from traditional scanners to intelligent security platforms and autonomous remediation.\nHelp developers build secure software faster and with greater confidence.\nWork Location\nHybrid from our Mountain View CA office. \nWhat you will have at Harness\nCompetitive salary\nComprehensive healthcare benefits\nFlexible Spending Account (FSA)\nFlexible work schedule\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)\nFlexible Time Off and Parental Leave\nMonthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events\nMonthly internet reimbursement\nThe anticipated base salary range for this position is between $240,000 and $265,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers. \nPay transparency\n$240,000—$265,000 USD\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":8291,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Flexible time off","Internet reimbursement","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Security","DevOps & Platform Engineering","Code Intelligence","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-06-26T21:02:06Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Filed H-1B visas in the last two years","filings_12m":0,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":39,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.891,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":114,"expected_fill_days":97,"reasons":["conf:1","urgency","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-19T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":265000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T13:45:09Z","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":9865,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"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-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security"},{"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-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security"},{"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-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security"},{"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-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fharness-principal-director-product-management-code-container-security"}]}