Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Senior engineering manager role leading Harness's Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) team in Bengaluru, running a globally distributed feature-flag platform evaluated at 4T flags/year. Day-to-day spans people leadership, delivery, and technical governance of scalable distributed systems built with Java/Golang, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud, and big-data tooling.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 10-14 years of overall software development experience
- 2-3 years in formal engineering management or tech-lead capacity managing high-performing backend teams
- Deep technical expertise building highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Strong familiarity with Java or Golang environments
- Experience with containerized ecosystems (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Experience with cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS/Azure)
- Advanced database/search technologies (PostgreSQL, relational DB tuning, Elasticsearch)
- Experience scaling data pipelines processing 10 TB+ daily
- Strong expertise in distributed processing frameworks like Spark and Flink
- Deep understanding of modern CI/CD processes, deployment metrics, automated quality gates, and distributed tracing architectures
- Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, and cross-functional communication skills
- Track record of navigating ambiguity, managing shifting requirements, and executing under tight release cycles
Nice to have
- Experience with high concurrency, low-latency networks, real-time data processing, or edge delivery networks
Full description
Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.
Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position SummaryBuild Distributed Systems at Global Scale — Join Harness FME
Last year, the Harness FME platform evaluated 4 trillion feature flags. For most people, that’s just an impressive number. For a scale-minded builder and engineering leader, it represents one of the most demanding challenges in distributed systems.
To power this scale, we’ve built:
- Massive global concurrency supporting millions of real-time decisions.
- Millisecond-level latency through a globally distributed feature flag delivery network.
- Tier-one enterprise reliability trusted by the world’s most sophisticated companies.
Our Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) team is expanding in Bengaluru. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead this high-impact team. This is a rare opportunity to join early, mentor top talent, and directly shape both the architecture and the high-performance culture of a team whose work sits squarely in the critical path of software delivery for global enterprises.
About the Role
As a senior Engineering Manager for FME, you will combine technical leadership, strategic execution, and people management to guide a team of highly skilled engineers. You will be responsible for: