Senior Developer Productivity Engineer

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 a high-growth company disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the world's 30 million software developers to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely, and quickly. By increasing our customers' pace of innovation and improving the developer experience, we're building the future of intelligent software delivery. As a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer, you will be key to improving the velocity of our own world-class engineering team.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Developer Productivity Engineer with 5-8 years of experience who is driven by a deep desire to make people successful in their developer roles. This role requires technical mastery of CI/CD and build systems, combined with a servant leadership approach to product engineering. You will be a key driver in adopting cutting-edge technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), to revolutionize our internal development processes.

About the role

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain core developer tools and services (e.g., code coverage, code review, unit/contract test framework, artifact management) to create a seamless and low-friction Developer Experience (DevEx).

• Drive research, experimentation, and productionization of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI tools to augment developer workflows, focusing on areas like code generation, intelligent testing, auto-documentation, and automated troubleshooting to dramatically improve efficiency and productivity.

• Lead the architecture and continuous improvement of our internal CI/CD pipelines (leveraging the Harness Platform) to ensure fast, reliable, and secure deployments.

• Identify and aggressively eliminate performance bottlenecks in large-scale build and test systems, implementing advanced caching, parallelization, and build graph optimizations to significantly reduce cycle time.

• Implement and manage tooling for code coverage and static/dynamic analysis, seamlessly integrating them into the pipeline and code review process.

• Partner with feature teams, acting as an empathetic consultant and platform advocate. You measure your success by the success of your internal customers (our developers), providing guidance, reducing their toil, and ensuring they have the best environment to ship code.

• Define, track, and report on key developer productivity and platform health metrics (e.g., DORA metrics). Implement robust monitoring, logging, and tracing to provide deep visibility into developer platform reliability and performance.

About you

• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on Developer Productivity, DevOps, or Product Engineering.

• Strong proficiency in at least one major language used for backend development and tooling (e.g., Go, Python, Java) and strong shell scripting skills.

• Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery systems at scale. Practical knowledge of the Harness Platform is a significant plus.

• Extensive experience with build tools (Maven, Gradle, Bazel, or similar) and a proven track record of successfully implementing complex build tuning and optimization strategies.

• Solid working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for managing build environments and application deployments

• Demonstrated commitment to Servant Leadership principles, prioritizing the needs of development teams and passionate about reducing developer toil.

Work Location

Argentina. Tandil (office / hybrid) or Remote in Argentina.

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

Harness in the news:

• Harness AI Tackles Software Development’s 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 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.