Staff Security Research 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. Were 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and build AI-powered security capabilities that enhance early detection and prevention across SAST SCA DAST and CI / CD pipelines.
• Research risks in AI-assisted development including insecure code generation dependency suggestions and automated refactoring.
• Lead research into modern attack vectors targeting code dependencies build systems CI / CD pipelines and cloud environments.
• Develop AI-assisted detection and testing methods to improve accuracy automation and coverage across security tooling.
• Prototype and validate new detection methods that help developers prevent vulnerabilities before deployment.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to integrate research outcomes directly into developer workflows and platform features.
• Perform deep technical assessments of applications APIs source repositories and build pipelines to uncover design flaws dependency risks and supply chain threats.
• Work with customers and internal teams to align research with real-world DevSecOps use cases and product improvements.
• Contribute to pre-sales and technical enablement through proof-of-concepts demos and solution design for code-to-cloud protection.
• Build internal tools and automation that accelerate vulnerability discovery analysis and AI-driven security research.
• Share insights and research outcomes through blogs whitepapers and conference talks to advance the field of Shift-Left and AI security.
• Continuously monitor emerging threats and apply learnings to improve product detection and protection capabilities.

About You

Work Location

This role will be out of our Bengaluru India office on a Hybrid capacity.

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Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Anti Money Laundering,Accounting Tally,Android,Council,Downstream,Bakery

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1