CareerPlan

Senior Customer Architect

USAFull-time$180k–$202k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-11

Core

Senior Customer Architect (Forward Deployed Engineer) serving as a technical solution expert and advisor for large Harness AppSec customers to design, implement, and optimize platform adoption strategies.

Role type

Senior IC Customer Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer

Builds

Harness AI-enabled DevSecOps platform and AppSec modules

Domain

Cloud Security, DevSecOps, Application Security, AI Security

Required skills

Kubernetes ecosystem expertise, AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux, Python/Bash scripting, CI/CD pipelines, SAST/DAST/SCA/IAST, API security testing

Preferred skills

GCP/Azure, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes troubleshooting, Splunk/Datadog, SOAR platforms, AI application security

Technologies

Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness Pipelines, Python, Bash, Splunk, Datadog

Responsibilities

Serve as primary technical owner for customer implementations and adoption programs; Provide hands-on technical guidance from onboarding to value realization; Develop strategic account success plans; Analyze customer usage data to surface optimization opportunities; Collaborate with product and engineering to drive solution adoption; Conduct regular business reviews and address customer concerns; Identify at-risk accounts through churn analysis; Contribute to reference architectures and enablement content.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC