Harness inc.

Senior Developer Productivity Engineer

Tandil, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina Full Time
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 a high-growth company disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the world's 30 million software developers to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely, and quickly. By increasing our customers' pace of innovation and improving the developer experience, we're building the future of intelligent software delivery. As a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer, you will be key to improving the velocity of our own world-class engineering team.
 

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Operations Engineer with 5-8 years of experience who is driven by a deep desire to use technology to make R&D run more efficiently. This role requires technical expertise in Bash and Python scripting, Jira admin, analytics, and automation. You will be a key driver in enabling the org to run efficiently

About the role

  • Engineering Operations owns “everything but the code” within Engineering. You will help design, develop, implement, and maintain tooling and process for a 700+ person R&D org 
  • Primary Jira Administrator for 25 development teams. Work with the Director of Engineering Operations to think through how design choices balance developer experience, velocity, and data quality. 
  • Team up with FINOPS to develop automation and infrastructure to determine developer tooling usage and attribute costs where appropriate
  • Partner with Product Ops to improve accuracy and presentation of R&D Metrics, using a large toolbox of technologies
  • Partner with senior engineering leaders to formulate and bring to life engineering metrics (DORA, Quality, certain boutique metrics)
  • Draft and review process docs, and develop automation (where appropriate) to enforce guardrails 
  • Take occasional business-hour on-call periods on behalf of the Developer Experience team (Basic CI/CD troubleshooting/runbook execution)

About you

  • Interest in building the Operating System for a hyper-scaling org 
  • 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on Developer Productivity, DevOps, Analytics, or Product Engineering.
  • Proficiency in at least one major language used for backend development and tooling (e.g., Go, Python, Java) and strong shell scripting skills.
  • Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating general automation (Python/Bash scripting, manipulating API data, SQL)
  • Comfortable troubleshooting complex systems

Work Location

Argentina. Tandil (office / hybrid) or Remote in Argentina.

What you will have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • 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

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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 job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.