Customer Architect (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Harness
| Company | Harness |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | U.S. (Remote) |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
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 United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.
With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. Position Summary
We are seeking a highly technical and customer-focused Customer Architect (Forward Deployed Engineer) to join our Customer Success team in the U.S (West Coast).
In this role, you will operate in a Forward Deployed Engineer model —embedding deeply with customers to solve complex technical challenges, accelerate adoption, and deliver measurable business outcomes. You will act as both a hands-on builder and a strategic advisor, working directly within customer environments to design, implement, and optimize solutions.
Harness is a multi-module DevSecOps platform, spanning CI/CD, cloud cost management, feature flags, security, and more. As a Customer Architect, you will work across multiple modules and domains, helping customers adopt an integrated platform approach rather than point solutions.
You’ll partner with engineering, platform, and security teams to modernize software delivery, improve reliability, and embed security into the development lifecycle
About the role
Forward Deployed Customer Engagement
Embed with customer teams as a hands-on technical partner, working directly in their environments to solve real-world challenges
Own the technical success of customer implementations across multiple Harness modules
Act as a bridge between customer teams and Harness Product & Engineering
Technical Delivery & Enablement
Provide hands-on guidance to integrate Harness into existing toolchains and processes
Design and implement CI/CD, infrastructure, and DevSecOps workflows tailored to customer architectures
Lead onboarding, implementation, and enablement programs to accelerate time-to-value
Multi-Module Platform Adoption
Drive adoption across the breadth of the Harness platform, helping customers expand beyond initial use cases
Architect solutions that span multiple modules (e.g., pipelines, infrastructure, security, cost optimization)
Guide customers toward a platform-centric approach rather than fragmented tooling
Strategic Advisory
Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and platform leadership
Develop and execute success plans aligned to business and technical outcomes
Lead technical reviews and business reviews to demonstrate value and identify growth opportunities
Optimization & Insights
Analyze usage, pipeline performance, and adoption data to identify gaps and opportunities
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