Senior Director, Engineering

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

Join Harness, a high-growth startup transforming how software is delivered. Our mission is to help 30 million developers ship code faster, more securely, and with greater reliability—fueling innovation and improving the developer experience. Backed by $425M in funding and led by AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal, we’re recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms and consistently ranked on Glassdoor, Forbes, Inc., and LinkedIn’s top workplace lists.

Our CI platform is the fastest and most intelligent on the market—cutting test cycles by 80% and accelerating builds up to 8x with features like AI-powered Test Intelligence™. Customers like United Airlines and Kajabi have seen massive gains in speed and cost savings by adopting Harness CI. This is your chance to drive innovation in a product line that’s reshaping how modern engineering teams build software.

We’re looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead our CI business—a high revenue line poised for 4x growth. This is a hands-on, high-impact leadership role combining product ownership, architectural oversight, and close customer collaboration. You'll define the long-term vision, deliver against strategic outcomes, and orchestrate engineering excellence across a globally distributed team.

About The Role

As the Senior Director of Engineering for Continuous Integration, you'll own the vision, execution, and technical direction of a critical $25M+ product line. You’ll split your time between technology leadership (40%), product and roadmap ownership (30%), and communication and collaboration (30%)—interfacing across executive leadership, customers, and cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for Harness CI, grounded in market trends and customer value.
• Make high-impact decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments that shape company direction.
• Partner directly with customers to inform roadmap priorities, manage escalations, and ensure adoption success.
• Lead delivery of cutting-edge CI features including AI Test Intelligence, smart caching, and hyper-optimized infrastructure.
  Drive security and compliance enhancements such as SLSA L3, scanner integrations, and automated vulnerability triage.
• Ensure deep integration of Harness CI across the SDLC, supporting any SCM, language, or platform.
• Hire, grow, and lead globally distributed engineering teams; foster a high-performance, feedback-driven culture.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership in areas like Kubernetes, Serverless, and policy-based pipeline governance.
• Modernize backend systems with a focus on distributed systems, Go, and GCP.
• Continuously improve internal processes, cross-team collaboration, and technical scalability across the org.

About You

We’re looking for a seasoned technology leader with a startup mindset and deep technical roots—someone who approaches challenges like a product engineer and thrives in complexity.

Required Experience & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of backend software development experience; 6+ years leading high-performing engineering or DevOps team