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Principal / Director, Product Management – Code & Container Security

Harness · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

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About Harness

Backed by Battery, Norwest and GV.

About the role

Harness is looking for a Principal / Director of Product Management to lead our Code & Container Security portfolio. This role owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for securing software throughout development, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), AI-generated code security, and emerging agent security capabilities.

What they're looking for

  • 7-10 years of product management experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, Developer Platforms, or Security Engineering
  • Deep understanding of SAST, SCA, vulnerability management, secure software development practices, and CI/CD workflows
  • Strong knowledge of open-source security, dependency management, and software supply chain risks
  • Experience defining product strategy, executing roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes
  • Strong understanding of developer workflows and enterprise software development practices
  • Excellent communication, customer engagement, and stakeholder management skills
More about this 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 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...

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