Engineering Manager AppSec
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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
AppSec org and growing at a very past pace both in terms of customers & revenue which in turn demand scaling engineerign services and teams. As as EM you will not only be responsible to lead a brilliant group of engineers but also closely work with end customers product & sales teams providing a unique oppourtunity of building and scaling the product in a fast paced and collaborative environment. Harness SaaS service consists of several microservices deploying multiple releases a week. We are looking for candidates with strong people management skills with a passion for technology who can be seen as a role model to the team. Candidate should we hands on with coding and ready to join and guide the team when needed.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management UX/design and go-to-market teams to define requirements and prioritize features. Translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure alignment across departments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities especially in complex technical environments. Capable of making informed high-impact decisions about architecture and design and adept at prioritizing tasks for maximum business impact.
- Drive definition development and deployment of comprehensive automated testing strategies including functional system performance stress security load reliability and longevity tests
- Be data-driven: identify generate and provide quality metrics to substantiate quality improvements
Technical Excellence
- Strong Software Engineering Background: 8 years of software development experience with a proven track record. Hands-on proficiency in Java is a must. Expertise in Python is a big plus.
- Distributed Systems & Cloud Expertise: Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. Experience building and operating scalable microservices in production (preferably on AWS and/or Azure). Familiarity with observability platforms and practices (logging monitoring tracing) is essential.
- Implement state-of-the-art quality engineering methodologies to uncover potential bottlenecks in performance defects risks and user experience
- Work with stakeholders to diagnose debug and perform root cause analysis for issues in production and test environments
- Establish and maintain processes to meet standards compliance such as SOC2/FedRamp
Team Leadership
- Proven ability to lead and grow an engineering team. Experience hiring engineers mentoring developers and fostering a collaborative high-performance team culture. Strong leadership and communication skills to coordinate across departments.
- Recruit challenge and reward high-performance individuals to build a high-performing organization
- Coach and mentor team members fostering a positive culture that embraces change and drives simple solutions to complex problems
- Be a trusted partner for senior management helping drive alignment and implementing decisions throughout your team
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Build relationships with Product Management DevOps SRE Service and Customer success teams
- Collaborate with customers and Customer Success teams to identify and resolve product issues close testing gaps and enhance usability
- Ensure alignment across functions and effective communication of relevant information
- Foster a culture of positive collaboration safety to learn from failure and continuous improvement
- Proactively provide solutions rather than just identifying problems
Qualifications
Required Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience in Software development.
- Minimum 3 years as an engineering manager in a fast-paced environment.
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science or related field or equivalent
- Experience with automation framework design continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
- Experience with REST/gRPC/gQL API-based products and services .
- Knowledge of Atlassian tools Git Harness or similar tools
- Experience with Kafka Kubernetes Helm Docker.
- Thorough understanding of different testing types at scale in distributed microservice architectures
Soft Skills
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-starter with exceptional attention to detail
- Customer focus sense of urgency and accountability
- Ability to manage diverse teams and collaborate with geographically distributed teams
- Keen business acumen ability to influence without authority
- Willingness to ask questions and challenge the status quo
Nice to Have
- Spearheaded the adoption of shift-left test practices
- Cloud IaaS knowledge especially in AWS/GCP
- Experience managing quality for enterprise customers
- Familiarity with KubeMonkey and other Chaos testing tools
- Exposure to code coverage DAST/SAST tools.
Work Location
- Bangalore. The successful candidate will be expected to be in the Bangalore office 2x/ week.
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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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
