Principal Product Manager, Platform (FedRAMP)

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 industrys leading AI-powered software delivery platform enabling teams worldwide to build test and deliver software faster safer and more reliably. Writing code is only 3040% 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 inCI/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 were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

Harness is an engineering-driven company built to solve complex real-world challenges in software delivery reliability and cloud infrastructure. As we expand across enterprise and government environments were strengthening the foundation that powers everything we build. This Principal Product Manager role sits at the intersection of Cloud Engineering Security and Infrastructure Product Managementdriving initiatives that enhance our Self-Managed Platform (SMP) achieve and maintain FedRAMP and FIPS compliance and ensure the stability and scalability of our dedicated SaaS environments.

What Youll Do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for the Self-Managed Platform (SMP) ensuring stability scalability and security for on-prem and regulated customers.
• Collaborate with Engineering to improve deployment workflows and customer adoption.
• Lead FedRAMP authorization and FIPS 140-2 certification efforts in partnership with Security Legal and Compliance.
• Oversee the development and validation of FIPS-compliant images for the Delegate and SMP.
• Support a dedicated SaaS offeringmanaging deployments monitoring and operational reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform performance scalability and resilience ensuring uptime and SLA compliance.
• Work cross-functionally to design architectures that scale with user and data growth.
  
  

About You

• 12 years in product management for enterprise software or SaaS; 4 years in infrastructure or platform products.
• Proven success owning strategy and roadmap for cloud or self-managed platforms in DevOps CI/CD or security domains.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems deployment architectures and infrastructure scalability.
• Hands-on experience with FedRAMP and FIPS compliance audits and cryptographic standards.
• Strong collaborator with Security Legal and Engineering to deliver compliant and secure platforms.
• Exceptional communicator and influencer across executive engineering and customer audiences.
• Operates with urgency and sound judgment balancing customer needs compliance and business goals.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong business acumen; evaluates build vs. buy tradeoffs effectively.
• Mentors and develops peers; drives process improvement and cross-team efficiency in R&D.

What you will have at Harness

• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly quarterly and annual social and team-building events
• TGIF-Off program
• 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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