Senior Software Engineer(SecurityAutomation) Customer Engineering
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13 hours ago
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Job Summary
About the Company
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.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. Were 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
We are looking for a skilled Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer who will be responsible for supporting our customers to implement and manage security tools within CI/CD pipelines and who is also capable of real-time technical troubleshooting.
This role involves deep technical analysis real-time troubleshooting of production issues and the critical design and implementation of security orchestration across customer CI/CD pipelines integrating tools for SAST DAST and SCA to enhance their software supply chain posture and compliance. You will work closely with customers to ensure seamless product operation create diagnostic and recovery scripts and contribute to automating deployment monitoring and issue-resolution workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with customer teams to identify diagnose and resolve product-related issues in real-time production environments.
- Provide technical assistance and troubleshooting support to customers during on-prem and cloud environments.
- Design and implement orchestration of multiple security scanners (SAST DAST SCA container config secret scans) in CI/CD pipelines.
- Monitor and mitigate open-source and third-party component risks (licensing vulnerabilities dependency health).
- Build visibility dashboards showing supply-chain posture risk scoring and compliance metrics.
- Collaborate with Engineering Security and DevOps to embed security seamlessly across workflows.
- Analyze logs metrics and configurations to troubleshoot performance networking and connectivity issues.
- Maintain a deep understanding of customer environments and guide them through best practices.
- Document issues workarounds and solutions in internal knowledge bases to drive continuous improvement.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 4 years in a technical support DevOps or Security and system administration role.
- Hands-on experience in CI/CD pipelines build systems integrating security scanning as part of DevSecOps practices.
- Strong understanding of security testing types: SAST DAST SCA container/image scanning configuration scans.
- Hands-on experience in Appsec tools like Checkmarx Blackduck Snyk Veracode etc
- Experience with dashboards reporting vulnerability trends vulnerability triaging and remediation.
- A deep understanding of what SBOMs are hands-on experience with standard SBOM formats such as SPDX and CycloneDX. The ability to generate ingest and manage SBOMs from various third-party and native tools.
- Familiarity with OWASP standards including OWASP GenAI Security OWASP LLM Top 10 OWASP API Top 10 OWASP Top 10.
- Strong scripting or automation background (e.g. Python Bash Groovy YAML).
- Strong foundational knowledge of networking concepts and protocols is mandatory for debugging connectivity issues within complex distributed systems.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS Azure or GCP) and experience troubleshooting cloud-based infrastructure.
- Soft Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong customer-centric approach.
- Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills with a relentless drive to solve complex ambiguous technical problems.
- Adaptability: Demonstrates strong adaptability and a proven ability to quickly grasp new technologies.
Nice to Have
- Experience working with AI and security products is a plus
Harness in the news:
- Harness AI Tackles Software Developments Real Bottleneck
- After Vibe Coding Comes Vibe Testing (Almost)
- Startup Within a Startup: Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
- Jyoti Bansal Harness theCUBEd Awards
- Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
- Harness snags as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
- Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.
Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Jenkins
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- GAMP
- Test Automation
- CI/CD
- Cucumber
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
