Tooling Engineer – Harness

Role

Tooling Engineer – Harness Location

Atlanta, GA (Onsite)

Contract

Rate

- $50/hr

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Tooling Engineer with strong expertise in Harness platform ownership, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering.

Required qualifications

• [10]+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, including senior architecture leadership on distributed, high-availability systems.
• Experience in payments, fintech, merchant services, or a comparably regulated transaction-processing domain.
• Ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform — not just use of one. Pipeline-as-code, templating and reuse at scale, RBAC design, secrets management, and multi-team governance. Harness, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions with Argo or Spinnaker, or Jenkins operated at scale.
• Experience integrating security scanning into delivery pipelines and setting policy gates that engineering teams accept rather than route around.
• Working command of engineering delivery metrics — DORA or equivalent — including their limits and the ways they get misused.

Depth in API and integration architecture

REST, asynchronous messaging, event-driven patterns, API lifecycle governance.

• Cloud-native architecture and Kubernetes in production.
• Track record of influencing technical direction across teams without reporting authority, and of explaining trade-offs to executives.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on Harness across multiple modules — particularly STO, SEI, or CCM, which fewer organizations have deployed.
• Policy-as-code experience (OPA/Rego or comparable).
• Cloud cost management or FinOps practice ownership; showback or chargeback implementation.
• Applied generative AI or agentic development patterns to real engineering workflows, governance included.
• Architecture leadership for large-scale API ecosystems, partner platforms, or merchant-facing onboarding.
• PCI DSS-aligned controls, IAM, or fraud/risk integration experience.
• Hands-on with [.NET / Java / Go / Node.js]; GitHub or Atlassian toolchain.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in Harness platform implementation, administration, and governance.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, pipeline-as-code, and reusable templates.
• Experience with Harness modules such as CI, CD, STO, SEI, and CCM.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Argo, or Spinnaker.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, security scanning, and DevSecOps.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and integrations.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.
• Knowledge of DORA metrics and engineering performance measurement.
• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps.
• Knowledge of policy-as-code (OPA/Rego).
• Experience with payments, fintech, or other regulated environments.
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with PCI DSS, IAM, and fraud/risk integrations.
• Experience with Generative AI in software development workflows.
• Programming knowledge of Java, .NET, Go, or Node.js.
• Experience with GitHub and Atlassian tools.