Software Engineer I Developer Productivity
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Job Summary
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised $240M 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.
About the Role
Were looking for an early-career Developer Productivity Engineer (13 years experience) passionate about helping developers work more effectively. Youll solve real-world problems in CI/CD pipelines build systems and local development environments while growing your platform engineering skills.
Working with experienced engineers and developers across the organization youll support the tools and systems that power our software delivery. Your success is measured by the problems you solve and the friction you removenot just the code you write.
This growth-oriented role offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies modern DevOps practices and emerging AI/LLM tools.
Key Responsibilities
Developer Support & Enablement
- Respond to tooling issues build failures and CI/CD problems
- Translate developer feedback into platform improvements with senior engineers
- Troubleshoot local development environments test failures and deployment blockers
CI/CD Pipeline Support
- Maintain and improve internal CI/CD pipelines (Harness Platform)
- Support build optimization through caching parallelization and incremental builds
- Monitor pipeline health and fix common build/deployment issues
Build Systems & Tooling
- Work with build tools (Maven Gradle Bazel) to improve performance and reliability
- Contribute to internal tools: code coverage dashboards test frameworks artifact management
- Automate repetitive tasks through scripting
Local Development Environment Support
- Maintain consistent environments using Docker and containerization
- Create documentation and self-service guides for onboarding and troubleshooting
- Reduce works on my machine issues
Quality & Testing Infrastructure
- Integrate code coverage static analysis and testing frameworks
- Support quality gates that provide fast actionable feedback
- Monitor and improve test reliability and speed
AI/LLM Tooling
- Experiment with AI-powered developer tools (code assistants auto-documentation test generation)
- Collaborate on piloting LLM-based solutions to reduce cognitive load
Collaboration & Growth
- Work with engineering teams to understand workflows and pain points
- Contribute ideas to tooling discussions based on observations
- Take ownership of well-defined projects with guidance from senior engineers
- Stay current with DevOps practices and emerging productivity tools
Required Qualifications
Experience
- 13 years in software engineering or DevOps
- Interest in developer productivity platform engineering or DevOps tooling
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Track record of solving technical problems
Technical Skills
- Programming: Python Go Java or JavaScript; Bash/Shell scripting
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions CircleCI Jenkins GitLab CI or Harness
- Build Tools: Maven Gradle npm or similar
- Containers: Docker and Docker Compose fundamentals
- Version Control: Strong Git skills (branching merging PRs code review)
- Cloud: AWS GCP or Azure basics
- Linux/Unix: Comfortable in terminal environments
Mindset
- Developer-first mindsetgenuinely care about making developers lives easier
- Empathy and listening skills
- Clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative eager to learn and growth-oriented
- Takes ownership and follows through on commitments
Nice-to-Haves
- Kubernetes Helm or container orchestration
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Pulumi)
- Observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Datadog)
- Modern web tooling (NodeJS NextJS Webpack Vite)
- Testing frameworks (JUnit pytest Jest)
- LLM code assistants (GitHub Copilot Cursor)
- DORA metrics or productivity measurement frameworks
- Open-source contributions or personal automation projects
- Startup or fast-paced environment experience
- Strong English communication for global teams
- Documentation and runbook creation experience
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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Key Skills
- Account Payable
- Apache Commons
- Community Support
- Corporate Risk Management
- Garment
- Java
About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
