Principal Product Manager, Platform
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
07-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
Work Location
Mountain View CA Hybrid
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
Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills experience qualifications location and comparison to other employees already in this addition to the base salary certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Time Management
- Data Analytics
- Analytical
- Agile
- Requirement Gathering
- Strategic thinking
- Visio
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Market Research
- UML
- Cross Functional Teams
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
