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 on the lookout for a dynamic Software Engineering Manager to spearhead our Billing Licensing initiatives within the Platform Engineering Organization This is not just another role it s an opportunity to build something truly transformative from the ground up You ll be leading a distributed team across multiple geographies tackling a greenfield project designed to process millions of events daily while delivering a seamless AWS-like billing experience for our customers We re searching for a leader who s not only seasoned in backend development Java but also eager to roll up their sleeves and stay hands-on with platform-level coding The right person thrives in fast-paced startup environments thrives in ambiguity and has a proven ability to turn big challenges into tangible outcomes If you bring high energy a passion for innovation and a commitment to delivering world-class customer experiences this role is your chance to shape the future of how enterprises experience billing at scale About the role We re building the future of Billing Licensing at scale and we want you at the helm As an Engineering Manager you won t just manage projects you ll shape the core architecture of a platform designed to handle millions of events with sub-second response times This is about building mission-critical infrastructure that rivals the scale and sophistication of world-class platforms like AWS You ll work side by side with brilliant engineers and architects making key technology decisions that power multi-tenant high-concurrency low-latency and secure data access You ll own the entire stack architecture development deployment sustainability and production operations and ensure it performs at its peak As a technical leader you ll drive code quality performance and best practices ensuring every line of code is reliable scalable and production-ready Beyond execution you ll define and evolve the technical vision build roadmaps that anticipate the future and inspire your teams to push boundaries This isn t just about running a team it s about building a platform that defines how enterprises experience billing at scale About you Proven Leader 3 years leading high-performing engineering teams balancing technical depth with people leadership Builder s Mindset 5 years building SaaS applications in backend Java Go roles with a passion for hands-on architecture and coding Organization Builder A track record of assembling and scaling world-class engineering orgs Global Collaborator Comfortable leading teams and working with customers across time zones Customer-Obsessed You ve directly influenced customer satisfaction and know what it takes to deliver mission-critical customer-facing software Performance-Driven Skilled in building data-intensive low-latency systems that deliver seamless user experiences Battle-Tested Solid command of managing production incidents and leading effective on-call rotations Technically Grounded BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience Harness in the news 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 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