The Harness Engineering team is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead complex cross platform initiatives and lead technical projects across geographies. Principal Engineers are recognized experts in Harness technology domain, and represent the senior technical leadership within their organization. Principal Engineers carry the responsibility of steering the course for their organizational segment, partnering with senior leadership, prioritizing initiatives to achieve a range of objectives.

Principal Engineers at Harness

Poses a careful blend of domain specific engineering expertise and world class technical leadership. There are a number of competencies that a Principal Engineer must display.

- Technical Competencies
- In depth tactical knowledge of the domain, yet broad experience and skill sets
- Domain and product expert when representing harness with customers and internal teams alike.
- Seamlessly include, promote and balance cross functional inputs from Product, Design, Enablement
- Break down complex technical requirements to motivate and lead cross-functional teams
- Consider the execution needed today, into the future, make investments aligned with broader impact
- Leadership Competencies
- Demonstrable experience in executing on one, or multiple roadmap through working with others, finding the ROI in organized efforts
- Subject matter and domain expertise applied to develop others internal and external to Harness
- In depth understanding of product features and roadmaps, how customers engage with the product in your space




- Clear displays of improving execution via process optimization, or other means
- Natural advisor to leadership on resourcing constraints, efficiencies.
- Practice and evangelize Harness core values
- Participate and contribute to Architecture Committees, Hiring Committees, and others that are formed to solve issues across the org, and company

Responsibilities

- Driving end to end, design and implementation of features
- Design, develop, and maintain integrations with multiple AI and cloud systems like Google Vertex AI, Azure, AWS and OpenAI
- Build Gen AI based Agentic architecture for a first class AI enabled user experience
- Use Prompt engineering techniques to leverage the best LLM models
- Collaborate with product management, engineering teams and Machine learning engineers for requirements through to delivery
- Design and implement scalable AI services

Requirement

- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: Modern Software Delivery, building complex distributed systems
- 8+ years of experience developing backend systems
- 6+ years of experience in Python with some knowledge of JavaScript (preferably Typescript)
- Experience in Rest APIs, RPC, Deploying services
- Experience in data modeling using NoSQL systems like MongoDB or SQL systems like MySQL, Postgres, etc.
- Bachelors degree, CS preferred, or equivalent skilled experience
- Experience working AWS to build scalable applications.

📌 Principal Software Engineer - AI (Bengaluru)
🏢 Harness
📍 Bengaluru