Software Engineering Manager — Usage & Monetization
Harness · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
About this role
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
Why this role matters: You’ll be at the center of how Harness measures, monetizes, and delivers customer value — designing systems that handle streaming data pipelines, large-scale event ingestion, real-time metering, and distributed entitlement logic across multiple products. Your work will directly shape the way customers experience Harness — ensuring fairness, precision, and performance in a system that’s as core to the platform as compute, storage, or security.
What you’ll do
- Lead a distributed team of engineers to build and operate large-scale, low-latency services capable of processing millions of usage events daily.
- Architect and implement the core event processing and data infrastructure behind usage tracking, metering, billing, and licensing across the Harness product suite.
- Partner with product and platform teams to define APIs, data contracts, and architecture that ensure seamless, real-time customer visibility into usage and costs.
- Drive excellence in operability, reliability, and performance, building systems that can scale effortlessly and self-heal under load.
- Stay hands-on — review code, contribute to key architectural components, and mentor engineers to push technical boundaries.
- Shape the technical roadmap and long-term strategy for how Harness manages value exchange at platform scale.
- Leadership depth: 3+ years leading high-performing backend or platform engineering teams.
- Technical mastery: 5+ years building SaaS platforms in Java or Go, with hands-on experience designing distributed systems and data-intensive pipelines.
- Scalability mindset: Strong experience in event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.) and low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Customer impact focus: A track record of building systems that deliver clarity, reliability, and trust to enterprise customers.
- Operational excellence: Skilled in managing on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.
- Collaborative DNA: Comfortable working across global teams, product boundaries, and complex technical domains.
- You’ll own a core platform that every Harness product depends on — shaping business models, enabling innovation, and driving transparency for customers.
- You’ll work with world-class engineers on problems of scale, data integrity, and reliability that few startups get to tackle this early.
- You’ll be part of an organization that believes in autonomy, ownership, and engineering excellence — where great ideas move fast from design to production.
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.
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 security@harness.io. 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.
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