Software Engineer

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.

This is an amazing opportunity to be an engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup. In this role, you will be part of the Harness team and responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software that has a direct impact on thousands of developers like you.

Core Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, mission-critical software in a fast-paced environment.
• Author clear and comprehensive functional specifications and design documentation.
• Quickly master complex systems and codebases to take ownership of key components, including ensuring the quality of the delivered product.
• Design and implement scalable algorithms.
• Diagnose and resolve intricate problems within a distributed computing environment.
• Conduct peer reviews of specifications, designs, and code.
• Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineers and cross-functional teams to diagnose and troubleshoot production performance issues.
• Languages: Golang, Java
• Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, GCP, Redis

About you

• A desire to build products that solve complex technical problems for end users
• 2-3 years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Golang, Java or similar languages
• Experience with GCP/AWS/Azure is a plus.
• Understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and software design with strong analytical and debugging skills
• Comfort in working in short, agile, iterative development cycles
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
• B Tech degree in CS or equivalent
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or Claude.

Work Location

Bangalore - Hybrid

What You Will Have at Harness

• Experience building a transformative product
• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Flexible work schedule
• Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
• Paid 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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