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Harness.io

Vice President, Engineering

Harness.io, Mountain View, California, us, 94039


Mountain View, California, United States

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 LocationMountain 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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