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.
Doing DevRel at Harness, we aim to meet developers where they are and bring them legitimate value via educational content and problem-solving and working examples. The goal is to raise awareness of Harness by being valuable in developer communities. You will need to be a subject matter expert on the Harness products you work on, as well as the community and users that those products serve.
You will partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing teams to create technical content, video content, in-person talks, sample apps for customers to utilize – and other forms of technical thought leadership to drive awareness and product adoption.
You will also work to help distribute that content across the web by finding and participating ing developer communities, and working to measure the ROI of these outreach and awareness efforts..
ABOUT THE ROLE
- Build a consistent pipeline of new content – blogs, videos and working code examples, on a monthly cadence
- Identify ideal developer communities to participate in for your given Harness product, and work with product marketing and product management to quantify our engagement efforts
- Seek opportunities to provide in-person speaking and training efforts at conferences, meetups and other developer community events
- Help us maintain our developer resources and improve our developer experience, including contributing to documentation and tutorials and being a voice for our customers back to the product management team
- Provide the marketing and sales team learnings from your work in the community, helping to feed into improved training, internal enablement and messaging based on what you learn via community engagement
ABOUT YOU
- 5+ years as a developer or 3+ years in a developer advocacy or educational role such as developer relations/evangelism, creating technical content, leading a community of developers via forums or events
- Hungry to get stuff done and adjust at a high rate of change – velocity paired with iterative learning beats perfection
- You have 3+ examples of technical educational content aimed for professional developers (e.g. tutorial, video series, blog series, course)
- Comfortable writing code to produce sample apps in at least one language
- Interested in unpacking the business case around developer advocacy and working to quantify the ROI of all efforts
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
- TGIF-Off program
- Remote office stipend
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Monthly Food & Beverage Reimbursement Program
Harness in the news
- Harness Snags $230 Series D – $3.7B Evaluation
- 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
$139,000 – $164,000 a year
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $139,000-164,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefitsMore details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:https://www.harness.io/company/careers.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.