Harness
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DirectorSoftwareEngineering
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“Director Software Engineering at Harness. Skills: AI, Software delivery, Engineering leadership. Execute long-term vision and strategy. Develop product landscape grasp”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver against strategic outcomes; Ensure adoption success
Industry & Context.
Navigate complexity
In office 3x/week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years leading engineering teams, BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Domain knowledge of developer tooling platform, Spearheading transformation of software development methodologies, Leading incident management
What You'll Do.
Execute long-term vision and strategy
Develop product landscape grasp
Partner with product manager
Contribute to product architecture
Contribute to design reviews
Make high-impact decisions
Shape product direction
Hire engineering teams
Grow engineering teams
Lead engineering teams
Establish AI first development practices
Improve internal processes
Improve cross-team collaboration
Improve technical scalability
Partner directly with customers
Ensure adoption success
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Globally distributed teams; Cross-functional environments; Customer collaboration
Communication Scope
Clear communicator
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
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. Join Harness, a high-growth startup transforming how software is delivered. Our mission is to help 30 million developers ship code faster, more securely, and with greater reliability—fueling innovation and improving the developer experience. Backed by $425M in funding and led by AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal, we’re recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms and consistently ranked on Glassdoor, Forbes, Inc., and LinkedIn’s top workpl
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