Senior Customer Architect- Sr DevOps Engineer

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 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Customer Architect (Forward Deploy Engineer) to join our Customer Success team. In this role, you will act as a technical expert embedded with our customers to ensure they realize maximum value from our platform. You will configure and optimize platforms for client use cases, build workflows around real user needs, drive product adoption, and keep customer deployments healthy. As a strategic technical advisor, you will enable customers through hands-on support and guidance, helping them achieve their business outcomes while maintaining high satisfaction. This role reports directly to the Director, Customer Architect and will collaborate closely with Customer Success Architects, Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to deliver results. Key Responsibilities Technical Enablement Customer Adoption: Lead technical onboarding and enablement programs to drive high customer adoption and satisfaction. Provide best-practice guidance and hands-on support so customers fully leverage our solutions, aiming to maintain over 90% product adoption in each account. Strategic Advisory: Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer teams, understanding their goals and challenges. Influence key stakeholders by articulating how our platform aligns with their business objectives, and guide them on strategic infrastructure improvements to achieve desired outcomes. Business Value Reviews (BVRs): Plan and deliver regular Business Value Reviews to demonstrate progress toward customers’ goals, product usage, and realized value. Prepare compelling presentations (using Google Slides and other tools) to highlight ROI, technical achievements, and next-step recommendations. Churn Analysis Customer Success: Proactively monitor customer health and usage metrics. Perform churn analysis to identify at-risk accounts and technical pain points. Work with customers to resolve issues, optimize their implementations, and ensure technical success — thereby maintaining an Annual Gross Retention Rate (AGRR) above 90%. Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM): Deliver hands-on support in the Infrastructure-as-Code module. Help customers implement and manage IaC solutions to automate their cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS and GCP. Internal Developer Platforms (IDP): Guide customers in building and improving Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes. Assist with setting up CI/CD pipelines, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)