Cloud Cost Engineer

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 AppDynamics 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, ServiceNow, 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.

• Cost Forecasting:
• Provide Finance with a comprehensive monthly forecast of cloud costs for the entire cloud estate, ensuring accuracy and alignment with financial planning.
• CCM Implementation:
• Own and oversee the implementation of internal Cloud Cost Management (CCM) solutions, ensuring that they are effectively integrated and utilized.
• Check out Harness' Cloud Cost Management (CCM) product here
• Cost Savings Achievement:
• Identify and drive cost-saving initiatives by providing technical leadership or pushing commits. 
• Internal Consulting and Support:
• Provide hands-on consulting and support for new cloud builds, focusing on cost optimization strategies to minimize cost while maintaining performance and velocity.
• ADR Review and Signoff:
• Review all Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for potential cloud cost implications and provide signoff where appropriate, ensuring cost considerations are incorporated into design decisions.
• Reservations and Savings Plans Management:
• Manage cloud reservations and savings plans to maximize cost efficiency and ensure optimal utilization of reserved instances and savings opportunities.
• Tagging and Labeling Policies:
• Develop and maintain tagging and labeling policies, as well as implement any necessary technical measures to facilitate accurate and actionable cost reporting.

Mountain View, CA or Remote in the U.S.A. 

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

• Harness Grabs a $150m Line of Credit
• Welcome Split!
• Harness Recognized in Inc.'s Best Workplace Awards 2022
• Harness on LinkedIn: America's Great Companies to Work For -- And What You Can Learn From
• #6 - Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2021 list
• #17 on Forbes Top 50 Cloud Companies to Work For
• #47 on LinkedIn’ Top 50 Companies to Work For
• #2 on Quartz 2021 list best places to work for remote workers
• 2021 Career Launching Companies List

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