Director, Engineering

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.

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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.

About The Role

As Director of Engineering at Harness, you'll lead a team pivotal to its success, focusing on fostering growth and enabling a multi geo team to innovate and deliver both open source and enterprise-grade features.

Your role involves close collaboration with Product Management, your team, and peers to ensure top-notch quality and execution in delivery.

• Build and retain a growth-minded Enterprise SaaS organization : you know what it takes to both scale and sustain high-performing teams.
• Vision & Direction : You will set the charter for your organization and understand how to deliver value to customers.
• Managerial and interpersonal leadership : You will effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering and interact and work with engineers at all levels.
• Influence : build and maintain strong relationships. Align your team and stakeholders to what’s best for Harness.
• Deep understanding of software engineering and architecture - you will lead with a developer mindset from your past experience, while remaining focused on leadership excellence.
• Exercise world class cross functional leadership with all Harness orgs.
• Use your past expertise in delivering products in software lifecycle / delivery space - CI / CD.
• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments.

About You

• A seasoned technology leader with experience in a growth-minded Enterprise SaaS organization : you know what it takes to both scale and sustain high-performing teams.
• Vision & Direction : You have experience leading an organization and understand how to deliver value to the customers.
• A problem solver, able to balance competing priorities, strong process orientation, and ability to manage through complexity and rapid change.
• Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills : You can effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering and interact and work with engineers at all levels.
• Influence : You build strong relationships through your expertise and align your team and stakeholders to what’s best for Harness.
• Deep understanding of software engineering and architecture - you’ve been a developer in the past but are focused on leadership now.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional leaders across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment.
• Experience delivering products in software lifecycle / delivery space - CI / CD.
• Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments.
• You are a hands-on leader with a "can do" attitude and a bias for action; gets it done, on time every time without cutting corners.

Work Location

Successful candidates will be expected to be in the Mountain View, CA office, at least 3 times per week.

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Paid Time Off, Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave.
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events.
• Recharge & Reset Program.
• Monthly internet reimbursement.

Pay transparency

$225,000 $260,000 USD.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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