Director Software Engineering - AppSec Platform
Core
Lead the technical vision and roadmap for Harness's Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) platform, expanding into AI discovery, red-teaming, and AI firewall capabilities to secure agentic workloads and API traffic.
Role type
Director of Engineering (AppSec Platform)
Builds
AI-native runtime API protection, bot/abuse defense, AI discovery, AI red-teaming, and AI firewall layers for global enterprise customers.
Domain
Application Security, API Security, AI Security, DevSecOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Backend/platform engineering leadership, distributed systems architecture, high-throughput API design, team scaling, product strategy, customer partnership, incident response
Preferred skills
AI security domain knowledge, agentic workflow design, bot/abuse defense expertise
Technologies
AI/ML frameworks for security, distributed systems, API gateways, security orchestration tools
Responsibilities
Define AI-era WAAP vision and strategy, shape roadmap for AI discovery and red-teaming, provide hands-on architectural leadership, build and grow engineering teams, partner directly with enterprise customers, drive production reliability and incident response, represent the company in the security community
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leadership