Director, Platform Engineering
Harness
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2023
Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely, and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy, and manage reliability, feature flags, and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, and Chaos Engineering, and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.
POSITION SUMMARY
This is an amazing opportunity to be involved in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, we are looking for an experienced, hands-on engineering leader who has deep knowledge in web technologies and large scale distributed systems
We're seeking A players to work with A players. We're a high-growth company on a once-in-a-lifetime journey to revolutionize deployment tools & continuous delivery. Be a part of it.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- As the Director of Harness’s Core Platform, you will be responsible for the service layers that Harness rests upon, define and maintain the core data models that Harness uses, and allow all the different parts of Harness modules to work smoothly together at scale• Reporting to the VP of platform engineering, your peers and customers will be all of the other engineering directors at Harness•You will partner with a multitude of stakeholders to understand Harness’s core service priorities across all of our modules, and will guide the design, development, and adoption of a scalable, reliable, and low-latency core service stack
- You will be accountable for building, growing, and mentoring a world-class team of engineers to help Harness reach its goal of reaching delivering value to every single developer and engineering organization in the market
- Develop, drive, and execute a long-term vision and strategy for Core Services to be leveraged by all of Harness’s modules
- Coordinate across product and engineering teams to understand and widely socialize Harness's core service priorities across all of our products
- Deliver and maintain a long-term roadmap for core service capabilities and supported/recommended interfaces for development
- Establish a stronger Platform-Module interface for feature tracking and prioritization, and provide an opinionated and trusted voice for guiding these decisions
- Drive the identification and scoping of data access and audibility requirements across core services
- Evolve our backend tech stack using modern and internally supported options
- Lead, manage, and grow high-caliber engineering teams
- Provide mentorship and growth opportunities for team members and leaders to evolve in their roles at a company scale
- Set and support a culture of metrics-driven Quality, with efficient processes and strong transparency
ABOUT YOU
- 6+ years experience of managing teams of software and infrastructure engineers and 10+ years of experience developing internet-scale software, in backend roles
- Professional experience and capability with scaled, high-rate platform services, and API design
- Track record of assembling high-functioning organization
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
WHAT YOU WILL HAVE AT HARNESS
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- TGIF-Off program
- Remote office stipend
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Monthly Food & Beverage Reimbursement Program
- #LI-REMOTE
HARNESS IN THE NEWS
- Harness Snags $230 Series D - $3.7B Valuation
- Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022
- Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From
- #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list
- #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For
- #47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For
- #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers
- 2021 Career Launching Companies List
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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