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 seasoned VP of Engineering to lead and scale our high-performing, growth-minded engineering organization in the Enterprise SaaS space. In this role, you will set a strategic vision, drive technical excellence, and foster a collaborative environment to deliver meaningful value to our customers. With a deep background in software engineering and architecture, you’ll leverage your expertise to lead cross-functional teams and build strong relationships across the organization. This position requires a proven leader with experience in fast-paced, complex environments and a track record of delivering impactful results in the software lifecycle/delivery space

About the role

Build and retain a growth-minded Enterprise SaaS organization: you know what it takes to go from startup to scale-up
Vision & Direction: You will set the charter for your organization and understand how to deliver value to customers
Managerial and interpersonal leadership: You will effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering and interact and work with engineers at all levels
Influence: build and maintain strong relationships. Align your team and stakeholders to what’s best for Harness
Deep understanding of software engineering and architecture - you will lead with a developer mindset from your past experience, while remaining focused on leadership excellence
Exercise world class cross functional leadership with all Harness orgs
Use your past expertise in delivering products in software lifecycle/delivery space
Track record of delivery in rapidly changing, fast moving, unstructured, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments

About you

A seasoned technology leader with experience in a growth-minded Enterprise SaaS organization: you know what it takes to both scale and sustain high-performing teams. Prior startup experience is a must
Strong technical background in the DevOps domain
Vision & Direction: You have experience leading (as a Sr Director/VP) an organization and understand how to deliver value to the customers
A problem solver, able to balance competing priorities, strong process orientation, and ability to manage through complexity and rapid change
Excellent leadership skills and interpersonal skills: You can effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering and interact and work with engineers at all levels
Influence: You build strong relationships through your expertise and align your team and stakeholders to what’s best for Harness
Deep understanding of software engineering and architecture - you’ve been a developer in the past but are focused on leadership now
Experience partnering with cross-functional leaders across a globally distributed organization and exercising sound judgment
Experience delivering products in software lifecycle/delivery space with a deep technical background in managing complex architectures and design in Java/Golang stack
Track record of delivery in high growth and resource constrained environments
You are a hands-on leader with a "can do" attitude and a bias for action; gets it done, on time every time without cutting corners
Previous experience at a VP level or above leading a team of at least 200 across multiple time zones

Work Location

Mountain View, CA

What you will have at Harness

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

Pay transparency

$300,000—$350,000 USD

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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