Job Summary

Harness is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape the architecture and direction of AI SRE. You will build scalable platforms and AI investigators that help engineering teams understand incidents, correlate evidence, identify likely causes, and determine the next action.

This role combines hands-on backend and distributed-systems expertise with organization-wide technical leadership, mentorship, and customer engagement.
About AI SRE

Harness AI SRE helps teams investigate and resolve production incidents by reasoning across deployments, source code, pull requests, alerts, telemetry, feature flags, documentation, runbooks, and previous incidents.

We are building systems that investigate, reason, and act-not simply answer questions. This requires reliable distributed systems, intelligent retrieval and agentic workflows, and experiences engineers can trust during high-pressure incidents.
Principal Engineers at Harness

Principal Engineers possess a blend of domain expertise and world-class technical leadership.



They influence architecture and product strategy across teams, solve the organization s most difficult technical problems, develop engineers, and translate ambiguous customer needs into scalable solutions.
Technical Competencies
- Strong backend, distributed systems, databases, and reliability expertise.
- Deep understanding of incident management, observability, SLOs, and RCA.
- Experience with AI/agentic systems, retrieval, and engineering data.
- Solid problem-solving and architectural judgment.
- Ability to balance technical decisions with product and customer needs.
Leadership Competencies
- Lead complex, cross-team initiatives with clear technical direction.
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality.
- Drive simplification, reusable platforms, and better execution.
- Make strategic decisions around risk, resources, and build-vs-buy.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational impact.
Key Responsibilities
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📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Harness.io
📍 Bengaluru