Principal Software Engineer- CD

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 The Harness Engineering team is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead complex cross platform initiatives and lead technical projects across geographies. Principal Engineers are recognized experts in Harness’ technology domain, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization. Principal Engineers carry the responsibility of steering the course for their organizational segment, partnering with senior leadership, prioritizing initiatives to achieve a range of objectives.

Principal Engineers at Harness Poses a careful blend of domain specific engineering expertise and world class technical leadership. There are a number of competencies that a Principal Engineer must display.

• Technical Competencies

• In depth tactical knowledge of the domain, yet broad experience and skill sets
• Domain and product expert when representing harness with customers and internal teams alike.
• Seamlessly include, promote and balance cross functional inputs from Product, Design, Enablement
• Break down complex technical requirements to motivate and lead cross-functional teams

• Consider the execution needed today, into the future, make investments aligned with broader impact

• Leadership Competencies

• Demonstrable experience in executing on one, or multiple roadmap through working with others, finding the ROI in organized efforts
• Subject matter and domain expertise applied to develop others internal and external to Harness
• In depth understanding of product features and roadmaps, how customers engage with the product in your space
• Clear displays of improving execution via process optimization, or other means
• Natural advisor to leadership on resourcing constraints, efficiencies.
• Practice and evangelize Harness core values
• Participate and contribute to Architecture Committees, Hiring Committees, and others that are formed to solve issues across the org, and company

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates and proposes collaborative efforts across multiple teams in engineering, guiding team members to make well-informed decisions that align with the strategic plans of the respective sub-department.
• Proactively seeks to prevent redundant efforts, taking existing assets and hardening them for broad re-usability
• Apply your expertise in a mentorship capacity, to others in the organization. Champion a culture of improvement.
• Participate in resource planning, project mapping, and success criteria for large engineering initiatives
• Responds swiftly to the needs of today. Plan diligently for the needs of tomorrow
• Solve the most difficult technical problems at Harness.
• Interfaces with senior engineering leadership on project deliverables and planning. Create visibility and presents to executives when needed
• Lead and inspire innovation at the highest order across Harness’ portfolio of products and services
• Propose POCs and optimizations regu…