Harness
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). 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. Powered 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. Over 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. With 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. Position Summary Our CD platform is redefining how modern teams deploy software enabling safe, automated, intelligent deployments at scale with AI-driven deployment verification, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks. Customers rely on Harness CD to ship with confidence, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate release velocity. We’re looking for an Architect to own the technical direction of Continuous Delivery, a high-revenue product line poised for 4x growth. You’ll set the multi-year architectural vision for CD, stay deeply hands-on solving the hardest deployment problems, and act as the definitive technical authority across the CD organization and with customers.
Own the end-to-end architecture of the CD product suite deployment orchestration, pipeline execution, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), and automated rollback safety. Set the multi-year technical roadmap for CD, making build/buy and investment decisions that align with broader Harness engineering strategy. Stay deeply hands-on: build critical POCs and MVPs, write production code for the hardest problems, and prototype new deployment capabilities. Serve as the definitive CD subject-matter expert representing Harness to customers, partners, and internal leadership, and presenting to executives. Drive cross-team architectural alignment: prevent redundant efforts, harden shared assets for reuse, and broker solutions across engineering leadership. Mentor and elevate Principal and Senior Engineers; champion a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents; perform peer reviews of specs, designs, and code. Partner with SREs to diagnose and resolve production performance, reliability, and scale issues. About You
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience. 15+ years of backend software development, with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and microservices. Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD, GitOps, deployment, or software-delivery platform (or comparable high-throughput orchestration system). Deep hands-on expertise in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) and/or Golang, gRPC-based microservices. Expert-level Kubernetes: deployment models, operators, multi-cluster/multi-cloud, plus observability and alerting. Strong command of low-level API design and core distributed-systems principles. Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, driving multi-team roadmaps, and advising leadership. Excellent written and verbal communication. Nice-to-haves Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux) or progressive-delivery frameworks. Familiarity with Docker, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Terraform, and Helm. Background building developer or DevOps products. Open-source contributions to relevant CDF/CNCF projects. Harness in the news: Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. At 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/ 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 security@harness.io . 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.