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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.\nWe are looking for a Security Engineer to join our Security Engineering team. In this role, you will help design, implement, and operate security controls that protect our cloud infrastructure, applications, and enterprise environments at scale.\nYou will work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, DevOps, and Compliance teams to identify security risks, troubleshoot complex infrastructure and security issues, develop practical solutions, and drive security initiatives through implementation.\nThis is a hands-on role that combines security engineering, cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, network security, incident response, automation, and emerging areas such as AI security. You should be comfortable working independently on well-defined problems, learning new technologies quickly, and taking ownership of issues through resolution.\nYou enjoy hands-on problem solving and are comfortable moving between security engineering, cloud infrastructure, troubleshooting, automation, and incident response depending on the needs of the team.\nIn this role, you will: \nDesign, implement, operate, and continuously improve security controls across cloud and enterprise environments.\nPartner with Engineering, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to embed security into system design and operational processes.\nWork across cloud security, network security, AI security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Privileged Access Management (PAM).\nEvaluate security requirements and recommend practical, scalable, and risk-based solutions.\nTroubleshoot complex security and infrastructure issues across cloud, identity, networking, Kubernetes, and application environments while balancing security requirements with operational needs.\nImplement and maintain security monitoring, detection, and response capabilities.\nInvestigate security incidents and support containment, remediation, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements.\nConduct security reviews, threat assessments, and architecture evaluations for new and existing systems.\nImplement and maintain security controls for Web Application Firewalls (WAF), network firewalls, ingress, and other network security technologies.\nBuild automation using APIs, scripting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and AI-assisted workflows to reduce repetitive manual work and improve operational efficiency.\nDevelop and maintain security standards, guidelines, runbooks, and operational procedures.\nParticipate in the operational ownership of security services, including responding to security requests, production issues, incidents, and time-sensitive security needs.\nSupport compliance and audit initiatives by ensuring appropriate security controls are implemented and operating effectively.\nCollaborate with stakeholders across the organization to identify, prioritize, and reduce security risks.\nDesign and implement security guardrails for AI workloads and help identify and mitigate emerging AI security risks.\nContinuously evaluate emerging threats, technologies, and industry practices to improve the organization's security posture.\nAbout You\nYou have 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud System Administration, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.\nA background in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or System Administration with strong security experience or interest is highly valued.\nYou have hands-on experience working with public cloud infrastructure and a strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals.\nYou have hands-on experience with at least one major public cloud platform such as AWS or GCP, including IAM, networking, logging, security controls, and infrastructure troubleshooting.\nYou understand cloud security principles, network security, and modern security architectures.\nYou have experience working with identity, authentication, authorization, SSO, and privileged access controls.\nYou have experience with or are eager to develop deeper expertise in IAM, cloud infrastructure security, network security, and AI security.\nYou have experience with security monitoring, logging, detection, or incident response technologies.\nYou have experience troubleshooting infrastructure or cloud security issues and are comfortable investigating problems across multiple technology layers.\nYou can evaluate security requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions.\nYou are comfortable working across multiple teams and influencing security outcomes through technical reasoning and collaboration.\nYou have experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation technologies such as Terraform, Python, scripting, or APIs.\nYou understand containerized and cloud-native environments such as Kubernetes.\nYou have experience working with network security controls such as WAFs, firewalls, ingress controls, or cloud-native network security technologies.\nYou have exposure to security frameworks and compliance standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST, or similar.\nYou possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\nYou are self-driven, proactive, eager to learn, and comfortable taking ownership of problems through resolution.\nBonus Points!\nExperience working in fast-growing SaaS or cloud-native organizations.\nExperience securing large-scale distributed systems and production environments.\nFamiliarity with cloud-native security technologies and modern infrastructure platforms.\nExperience building security automation and operational tooling.\nRelevant security or cloud certifications.\nExperience supporting audits, customer security reviews, or regulatory compliance initiatives.\nExperience mentoring engineers and contributing to security strategy and roadmap development.\nPassion for continuous learning and improving security through automation and scalable solutions.\nThis role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges, building scalable security programs, and partnering closely with engineering teams to enable secure growth.\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":9562,"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":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["DevOps & Platform Engineering","Code Intelligence","Developer Tools"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T07:53:15Z"}],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":144,"reasons":["conf:3","urgency","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-security-engineer-cloud-infrastructure-security","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/harness-security-engineer-cloud-infrastructure-security.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T00:37:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":497,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4503,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}