Principal Product Manager - Continuous Integration and Code

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. We’re 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.

Position Summary

Harness is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategic initiatives within our Continuous Integration (CI) and Code products.

This is a hands-on, deeply technical PM role for someone who lives and breathes developer experience. You’ve written code, worked with Git, debugged pipelines, and felt the pain of slow builds, flaky tests, and broken caching. You’ll partner closely with engineering, design, and customers to deliver developer-first, intelligent CI experiences that dramatically improve build speed, reliability, and cost efficiency.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy individual-contributor role. You’ll operate across teams, shape product strategy, and influence company-level direction while staying close to code, customers, and the real developer workflow.

About the role

• Define and own the strategic roadmap for key areas of Harness CI - from build performance and cloud infrastructure to test intelligence and developer productivity.

• Partner deeply with engineering to define requirements, validate technical feasibility, and drive timely, high-quality releases.

• Engage directly with customers to understand developer workflows, pain points, and emerging trends in CI/CD.

• Translate data and insights into clear priorities, balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation around performance, efficiency, and intelligence.

• Drive execution with urgency, anticipating blockers and proactively unblocking dependencies across multiple teams.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with GTM, Developer Relations, and Marketing to drive adoption and create technical content that resonates with developers.

• Mentor and influence across teams, raising the bar for technical product rigor, roadmap clarity, and decision velocity.

• Represent Harness externally in customer meetings, webinars, and industry events, showcasing how Harness is redefining modern CI/CD.

About you

• Developer at heart – fluent in Git, build tools, and CI/CD workflows. You’ve written code, built pipelines, and understand what frustrates or delights developers.

• Execution-driven – you move fast, simplify complexity, and get things done. You bias toward iteration over analysis paralysis.

• Customer-obsessed – you think in user problems, not feature lists. You validate through feedback and usage data, not intuition alone.

• Comfortable with ambiguity – you can operate with limited context, set direction, and rally teams in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Strong communicator – you distill technical depth into crisp narratives that drive clarity and alignment across teams.

• Builder mindset – you thrive on solving developer problems and shaping the future of how software is delivered.

• AI-forward – you’re passionate about applying machine learning and automation to make CI pipelines faster, smarter, and more autonomous - and you see AI as a tool to amplify both developer and product workflows.

• Startup experience is a strong plus – you’re energized by velocity, lean teams, and hands-on execution, and you know how to turn constraints into momentum.

Qualifications

• BSc or higher in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 7+ years total experience, including:

• 3+ years in software development or engineering.

• 4+ years in product management for developer tools, DevOps, or CI/CD products.

• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines and build/test systems.

• Hands-on familiarity with technologies like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel, Gradle, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure.

• Experience or curiosity in AI/ML applications for developer productivity (e.g., build/test intelligence, predictive optimization).

• Proven track record of shipping complex, high-quality products quickly, with measurable business and developer impact.

• Strong data-driven decision-making and analytical skills.

Work Location

• Remote from within the U.S or Hybrid if you work near one of our offices.

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits

• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

• Flexible work schedule

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

• Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $212,000 and 240,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency
$212,000—$240,000 USD

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• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger

• Harness snags Split.io, 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

We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at [email protected]. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.