Senior Developer Productivity Engineer
Harness
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.
The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Operations Engineer with 5-8 years of experience who is driven by a deep desire to use technology to make R&D run more efficiently. This role requires technical expertise in Bash and Python scripting, Jira admin, analytics, and automation. You will be a key driver in enabling the org to run efficiently
About the role
- Engineering Operations owns “everything but the code” within Engineering. You will help design, develop, implement, and maintain tooling and process for a 700+ person R&D org
- Primary Jira Administrator for 25 development teams. Work with the Director of Engineering Operations to think through how design choices balance developer experience, velocity, and data quality.
- Team up with FINOPS to develop automation and infrastructure to determine developer tooling usage and attribute costs where appropriate
- Partner with Product Ops to improve accuracy and presentation of R&D Metrics, using a large toolbox of technologies
- Partner with senior engineering leaders to formulate and bring to life engineering metrics (DORA, Quality, certain boutique metrics)
- Draft and review process docs, and develop automation (where appropriate) to enforce guardrails
- Take occasional business-hour on-call periods on behalf of the Developer Experience team (Basic CI/CD troubleshooting/runbook execution)
About you
- Interest in building the Operating System for a hyper-scaling org
- 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on Developer Productivity, DevOps, Analytics, or Product Engineering.
- Proficiency in at least one major language used for backend development and tooling (e.g., Go, Python, Java) and strong shell scripting skills.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating general automation (Python/Bash scripting, manipulating API data, SQL)
- Comfortable troubleshooting complex systems
Work Location
Argentina. Tandil (office / hybrid) or Remote in Argentina.
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
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.
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