Principal Product Manager, Platform

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 an engineering-driven company built to solve complex, real-world challenges in software delivery, reliability, and cloud infrastructure. As we expand across enterprise and government environments, we’re strengthening the foundation that powers everything we build. This Principal Product Manager role sits at the intersection of Cloud Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure Product Management—driving initiatives that enhance our Self-Managed Platform (SMP), achieve and maintain FedRAMP and FIPS compliance, and ensure the stability and scalability of our dedicated SaaS environments.

What You’ll Do

• Own the strategy and roadmap for the Self-Managed Platform (SMP), ensuring stability, scalability, and security for on-prem and regulated customers.
• Collaborate with Engineering to improve deployment workflows and customer adoption.
• Lead FedRAMP authorization and FIPS 140-2 certification efforts in partnership with Security, Legal, and Compliance.
• Oversee the development and validation of FIPS-compliant images for the Delegate and SMP.
• Support a dedicated SaaS offering—managing deployments, monitoring, and operational reliability.
• Drive continuous improvement in platform performance, scalability, and resilience, ensuring uptime and SLA compliance.
• Work cross-functionally to design architectures that scale with user and data growth.
  
  

About You

• 12 years in product management for enterprise software or SaaS; 4 years in infrastructure or platform products.
• Proven success owning strategy and roadmap for cloud or self-managed platforms in DevOps, CI/CD, or security domains.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, deployment architectures, and infrastructure scalability.
• Hands-on experience with FedRAMP and FIPS compliance, audits, and cryptographic standards.
• Strong collaborator with Security, Legal, and Engineering to deliver compliant and secure platforms.
• Exceptional communicator and influencer across executive, engineering, and customer audiences.
• Operates with urgency and sound judgment, balancing customer needs, compliance, and business goals.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong business acumen; evaluates build vs. buy tradeoffs effectively.
• Mentors and develops peers; drives process improvement and cross-team efficiency in R&D.
  
  

Work Location

Mountain View, CA, Hybrid

What you will have at Harness

• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
• TGIF-Off program
• Monthly internet reimbursement
  
  

Factors that may be used to determine your actual pay rate include your specific skills, experience, qualifications, location, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to the base salary, certain roles may qualify for a performance-based incentive and/or equity, with eligibility depending on the position. These rewards are based on a combination of company performance and individual achievements.

Pay transparency

$204,000—$255,000 USD

Harness In The News

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• Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
• Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
• Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
• Exclusive: Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing
  
  

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.