Senior Sales Engineer - London
New Yesterday
Job Description
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$570M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.
The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.
Position Summary
The Senior Sales Engineer lives and works at the intersection between sales and engineering. The ideal candidate must be able to articulate technology and product positioning at the executive, business and technical levels. Sales Engineers are the primary technical support for the field sales force and are responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process. They are there to ensure success with all Traceable by Harness prospective customers and strategize with their sales counterparts to steer customers to a commercial relationship.
Key Responsibilities
- World class presentation skills in delivering presentations/demos of our platform
- Able to work with customers directly to debug common errors
- Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions
- Capable of understanding and articulating technology value propositions
- Recommend API security best practices, microservices architecture and infrastructure
- Drive complex technical engagements with customers to prove the value of Traceable by Harness solutions
- Proven experience as a Pre-Sales Engineer, with a focus on cybersecurity solutions
- Strong knowledge in cloud technologies including (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
- Able to deliver a great product demonstration which tells a story of how our software provides value to our customer
- You will be responsible for representing the product to customers and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.
- Experience presenting and delivering technical pitches to CISOs, architects, and technical staff
- Knowledgeable and up-to-date on changes and developments on our technologies
- Ability to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
- Ability to convey customer requirements to Engineering teams
- Open to travel across the sales territory with flexibility, including short-notice trips when needed.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience required
- Must be within commuting distance of London
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible work schedule
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Quarterly Harness TGIF-Off / 4 days
- Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
- Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
- How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
- Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
- Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success
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- Location:
- London
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering