Position Summary

Our CD platform is redefining how contemporary teams deploy software enabling safe, automated, intelligent deployments at scale with AI-driven deployment verification, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks. Customers rely on Harness CD to ship with confidence, reduce deployment risk, and accelerate release velocity.

About the Role

- Own the end-to-end architecture of the CD product suite deployment orchestration, pipeline execution, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), and automated rollback safety.

- Set the multi-year technical roadmap for CD, making build/buy and investment decisions that align with broader Harness engineering strategy.

- Stay deeply hands-on: build critical POCs and MVPs, write production code for the hardest problems, and prototype new deployment capabilities.

- Serve as the definitive CD subject-matter expert representing Harness to customers, partners, and internal leadership, and presenting to executives.

- Drive cross-team architectural alignment: prevent redundant efforts, harden shared assets for reuse, and broker solutions across engineering leadership.

- Mentor and elevate Principal and Senior Engineers; champion a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

- Author functional/non-functional specifications and design documents; perform peer reviews of specs, designs,



and code.

- Partner with SREs to diagnose and resolve production performance, reliability, and scale issues.

About You

Must-haves

- Bachelor s or Master s in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

- 15+ years of backend software development, with deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and microservices.

- Proven track record architecting and scaling a CD, GitOps, deployment, or software-delivery platform (or comparable high-throughput orchestration system).

- Deep hands-on expertise in JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin) and/or Golang, gRPC-based microservices.

- Expert-level Kubernetes: deployment models, operators, multi-cluster/multi-cloud, plus observability and alerting.

- Strong command of low-level API design and core distributed-systems principles.

- Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, driving multi-team roadmaps, and advising leadership.

- Excellent written and verbal communication.

Nice-to-haves

- Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux) or progressive-delivery frameworks.

- Familiarity with Docker, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Terraform, and Helm.

- Background building developer or DevOps products.

- Open-source contributions to relevant CDF/CNCF projects.

📌 Engineering Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Harness.io
📍 Bengaluru