Staff Developer Productivity Engineer

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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 were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

The Opportunity & Your Impact

We seek a hands-on Staff Developer Productivity Engineer with 8 years of experience who is passionate about enabling developers. This role requires technical mastery of CI/CD and build systems combined with a servant leadership mindset. You measure your success by developer satisfaction velocity improvements and eliminated toilnot by features shipped or systems built. You will drive adoption of cutting-edge technologies including LLMs to systematically eliminate repetitive work and restore developer flow.

Key Responsibilities

Servant Leadership & Developer Enablement: Act as a trusted advisor and champion for development teams. Deeply understand developer pain points eliminate friction and enable engineers to focus on delivering value. Listen actively translate feedback into platform improvements and ensure no developer waits unnecessarily or struggles with broken tooling.

LLM/AI Integration: Drive research and productionization of LLMs and AI tools to reduce developer cognitive load. Focus on code generation intelligent testing auto-documentation and automated troubleshooting. Partner with developers to automate their most painful repetitive tasks.

Architecture & Platform Development: Design and implement local development environments build systems test infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and delivery systems with one principle: minimize developer friction. Build core developer tools (code coverage code review test frameworks artifact management) that are intuitive reliable and fast.

CI/CD & Build Optimization: Lead continuous improvement of internal CI/CD pipelines (Harness Platform) to eliminate wait times and restore developer flow. Implement advanced caching parallelization and build graph optimizations to dramatically reduce cycle times and give developers back hours each day.

Quality Without Friction: Integrate code coverage and static/dynamic analysis tools that provide fast feedback and actionable insights. Design quality gates that protect production while respecting developer workflows and autonomy.

Technical Leadership: Mentor small engineering teams from new graduates to experienced engineers. Remove blockers provide context and create space for growth. Present technical guidance clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate across teams to deliver features that serve developer needs. Champion developer concerns in technical and business discussions ensuring their voices are heard and time is respected.

Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify workflow improvements by spending time with developers and observing their struggles. Own projects end-to-end while maintaining a feedback loop with the developers you serve.

Metrics & Observability: Track developer productivity metrics (DORA metrics build times deployment frequency developer satisfaction). Implement monitoring and tracing for platform reliability. Use data to identify where platforms fail developers not to judge performance.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 8 years in software engineering with 4 years focused on Developer Productivity DevOps or Platform Engineering. Track record of measurably improving developer satisfaction reducing toil or saving team time.

Technical Expertise:

Strong Development experience
Proficiency in Go Python or Java; strong shell scripting skills
Deep CI/CD experience at scale (Harness Platform knowledge a plus); familiarity with CircleCI ArgoCD
Extensive build tool expertise (Maven Gradle Bazel Buck Pants) with proven optimization results
Solid Docker Kubernetes and Helm knowledge for consistent developer environments
Cloud platform experience (AWS GCP Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Familiarity with NodeJS/NextJS and modern web development tooling

Leadership & Mindset:

Demonstrated servant leadershipconsistently prioritizing developer needs over personal goals
Ability to build trust listen without defensiveness and remove obstacles for others
Strong communication skills; can explain complexity to non-technical stakeholders while advocating for developers
Influence through empathy and demonstrated value; can say no to requests that harm developer experience

Desired Qualifications

Experience integrating LLM APIs or code assistants (Copilot internal LLMs) with measurable productivity gains
Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups while maintaining developer velocity
Security tooling integration (Shift-Left) while minimizing developer friction and false positives
Track record of building trust-based relationships with high emotional intelligence
Experience with office hours self-service documentation or internal developer community building
English fluency for global team communication

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.

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