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Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Harness

Harness

Mountain View, CA, USA
Posted on Thursday, July 11, 2024
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, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights 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

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a portion of our Platform Engineering Organization . The team will be distributed across multiple geographies. The right fit for this role would be someone with a backend development experience with Java and who is hands on with platform level coding. The ideal candidate for this role is high energy, passion for startups, knows how to operate effectively in unstructured environments, willingness to deal with unknowns, make commitments and drive outcomes.

About the role

  • 3+ years experience of leading a high caliber engineering team in a technical and people leadership role.
  • 5+ years of experience developing SaaS applications, in backend (Java/Go) developer roles. A builder by heart. Good implementation knowledge on APIs, SSO, SAML, LDAP, authentication and authorization architectures and frameworks.
  • Track record of assembling high-functioning organization
  • Experience working with teams and customers across time zones
  • Track record of addressing customer satisfaction directly
  • 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

About you

  • Take full ownership of the complete tech stack, overseeing the architecture, development, deployment, sustainability, and operation of the application in a production environment.
  • Assess code generated by fellow engineers, offering constructive feedback to uphold best practices, including adherence to style guidelines, code check-ins, accuracy, testability, and efficiency.
  • Shape the mid-term technical vision and roadmap for your team(s), often managing multiple teams.
  • Adapt the roadmap to align with anticipated future demands and infrastructure requirements.
  • Lead the design, validation, and evaluation of system designs within the broader domain, and contribute by writing code for product or system development to address complex challenges.

Work Location

Mountain View, CA, Onsite / Hybrid

What you will have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement
Pay transparency
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