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Vice President, Engineering

extra holidays - extra parental leave - fully flexible
Remote: 
Hybrid
Salary: 
6 - 350K yearly
Experience: 
Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
Work from: 
Mountain View (US)

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience in Enterprise SaaS organizations, Strong technical background in DevOps, Proven leadership at senior director or VP level, Extensive experience in software lifecycle/delivery.

Key responsabilities:

  • Lead and scale engineering organization
  • Set strategic vision and deliver value
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Harness Computer Software / SaaS Scaleup https://www.harness.io/
501 - 1000 Employees
HQ: San Francisco
About Harness
Harness is a rapidly growing startup that is disrupting the software delivery market. We are building an intelligent software delivery platform that enables engineers to deliver software faster, with higher quality, and with less effort. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Feature Flags and Cloud Cost Management. The platform is designed to help companies accelerate their cloud initiatives as well as their adoption of containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes and Amazon ECS.
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Job description

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 Location

Mountain 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
Harness in the news:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

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Experience

Level of experience: Expert & Leadership (>10 years)
Industry :
Computer Software / SaaS
Spoken language(s):
English
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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringDevOpsSoftware ArchitectureJava (Programming Language)Enterprise Application SoftwareCross-Functional Team LeadershipPackage DeliveryProcess Development

Other Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Social Skills
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