Principal Product Manager, Platform; FedRAMP

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 App Dynamics 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, Service Now, 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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 Dev Ops, 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.

Mountain View, CA, Hybrid

• 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

Pay transparency: $204,000 – $255,000 USD

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.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.