Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary

Build 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:

• People Leadership & Mentorship: Hire, grow, and nurture a world-class team of engineers in Bengaluru. Provide continuous career framework guidance, technical training, and constructive performance evaluations.
• Execution & Delivery: Drive agile, iterative development cycles with a short customer feedback loop. Ensure the team delivers consistently on module-level and cross-company priorities (including integration into Harness 3.0 and the Unified Data Platform).
• Technical Governance: Own engineering excellence, operational rigor, and product quality. Partner with Architects and Staff Engineers to oversee technical functional specifications, secure cloud integrations, and robust distributed systems design.
• Operational Health: Champion structural practices to minimize production incidents and regressions (targeting 2 S2+ regressions per quarter). Actively track engineering metrics, optimize cloud infrastructure costs (COGS), and enforce efficient code review processes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE/DevOps), and other module teams to unblock dependencies and ensure enterprise-readiness.

About You

• Experience: 10-14 years of overall software development experience, with at least 2–3 years in a formal engineering management or solid tech-lead capacity managing high-performing backend teams.
• Technical Depth: Deep technical expertise in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. Strong familiarity with Java or Golang environments is required.
• Systems & Data Infrastructure: Proven experience working with containerized ecosystems (Docker/Kubernetes), cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS/Azure), and advanced database/search technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, Relational DB tuning, Elasticsearch).
• Experience scaling data pipelines processing 10 TB+ daily. Strong expertise in distributed processing frameworks like Spark and Flink
• Scale Mindset: Experience handling systems with high concurrency, low-latency networks, real-time data processing, or edge delivery networks is a massive plus.
• Operational Rigor: Deep understanding of modern CI/CD processes, deployment metrics, automated quality gates, and distributed tracing architectures.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional problem-solving, debugging, and cross-functional communication skills. A proven track record of helping teams navigate ambiguity, manage shifting requirements, and execute under tight release cycles.

What you will have at Harness

• Experience building a transformative product
• End-to-end ownership of your projects
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefit
• Flexible work schedule
• Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team-building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement