Harness

Harness

Senior Product Security Engineer

U.S · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$113k-$125kDetected 103 days ago
JavaBackend DevelopmentObject-Oriented ProgrammingCode ReviewAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentCybersecurityValuationSupply ChainCiscoResearchCommunication

About the role

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop product security APIs, tools, and utilities for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews for application backend services and business integrations.
  • Perform advanced penetration tests and adversarial attack simulations against Harness modules, APIs, and codebase using industry-standard frameworks.
  • Lead manual and automated code review efforts to discover vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and anti-patterns in the Harness platform.
  • Implement and operate security tooling including SAST, DAST, and SCA, and integrate these into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering and Product to accelerate the release of software with security by design.
  • Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
  • Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or a related degree.
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience with a strong security focus.
  • Solid experience with DevSecOps practices and secure SDLC methodologies.
  • Experience with public or private cloud environments such as K8s, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Proficiency in Java or a comparable language and object-oriented programming methodology.
  • Hands-on experience with security testing tools and vulnerability management workflows.

Skills

  • Product Security is responsible for ensuring the continuous security of Harness customer-facing products and internal tools.

Compensation

  • $113,000 - $125,000 USD

Company info

  • Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
  • How Harness runs 16 "startups within a startup" at scale | Jyoti Bansal
  • Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare

This listing is sourced directly from Harness's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.