Harness is a private software company founded in 2017 that positions itself as an AI software delivery platform for modern engineering organizations. Harness helps teams automate and govern the path from code to production across DevOps, testing, application security, developer self-service, engineering analytics, and cloud cost optimization. Its platform is modular, allowing customers to adopt individual capabilities or standardize on a broader software delivery stack.
Harness serves more than 1,000 customers and focuses on giving software engineering teams a faster, safer, and more efficient way to ship code. The company combines AI-assisted workflows with platform controls such as policy enforcement, role-based access, secrets management, and auditability so organizations can improve delivery speed without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost discipline.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Harness centers its offering on a shared platform layer for identity and access control, connectors, secrets, governance, auditing, and reusable workflows. That common foundation lets teams standardize software delivery practices across organizations while still adopting modules independently based on immediate needs.
Across the platform, Harness emphasizes AI-assisted pipeline creation, troubleshooting, remediation guidance, and operational recommendations. It supports multi-cloud and hybrid deployment models, offers both SaaS and self-managed options, and maintains an open source offering for developer-centric SDLC workflows. Harness also supports broad interoperability with major Git providers, Kubernetes, observability and security tools, ticketing systems, and cloud services through 100+ integrations.
Products and Services
- Continuous Delivery & GitOps: Automates multi-cloud and multi-service software deployments with advanced deployment strategies, GitOps workflows, automated verification, and rollback capabilities.
- Continuous Integration: Provides AI-assisted CI pipelines with smart test selection, caching, hosted build infrastructure, and support for any Git-based source, language, and operating system.
- Internal Developer Portal: A Backstage-based internal developer portal that gives developers a centralized service catalog, self-service workflows, scorecards, environment management, and governance controls.
- Infrastructure as Code Management: Helps platform and DevOps teams automate infrastructure provisioning and management with Terraform and OpenTofu workflows, policy as code, drift detection, and governance.
- Feature Management & Experimentation: Combines enterprise feature flags, progressive delivery, experimentation, and impact measurement so teams can release safely and learn from feature performance.
- Resilience Testing: Delivers chaos engineering and reliability testing capabilities with built-in fault libraries, probes, pipeline integration, and controlled GameDay-style experimentation.
- AI Test Automation: A generative AI-powered test automation product for creating, executing, and maintaining end-to-end tests with no-code authoring, self-healing, and CI/CD integration.
- Application Security Testing: Brings application and API security testing into the SDLC with unified vulnerability management, policy enforcement, deduplication, prioritization, and developer-focused remediation workflows.
- Cloud Cost Management: Provides multi-cloud and Kubernetes cost visibility, allocation, anomaly detection, budgeting, forecasting, and automation features such as auto-stopping and commitment optimization.
- Software Engineering Insights: Measures engineering effectiveness with DORA- and SPACE-oriented analytics to identify bottlenecks, assess productivity, and improve developer experience.
- Database DevOps: Integrates database schema changes into delivery pipelines and improves database change visibility across environments.
- Artifact Registry: Centralizes storage and management of build artifacts and container images to simplify release workflows and improve control over software artifacts.
- Web Application & API Protection: Monitors application and API attack surfaces, identifies sensitive data exposure, and helps protect against runtime risks across applications and AI systems.
- AI Security: Discovers and protects AI assets, helps assess AI security posture, and addresses AI-specific threats across the environment.
- Harness Open Source: An open source software delivery platform from Harness that unifies code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, hosted development environments, and artifact management.
Target Customers
Harness targets software-driven organizations that need to improve release velocity while maintaining governance, reliability, and cost control. Its offerings fit individual developers and small teams getting started, growing engineering organizations formalizing DevOps practices, and large enterprises standardizing software delivery across multiple teams and environments.
The platform is especially relevant for platform engineering, DevOps, developer experience, SRE, QA, application security, and FinOps stakeholders. Harness has visible traction with enterprise engineering teams in industries such as financial services, airlines, retail, hospitality, and technology, making it a strong fit for organizations operating cloud-native, multi-cloud, or hybrid application environments.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Harness Platform is available through AWS Marketplace, giving AWS customers a procurement path for the software delivery platform on AWS.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: Harness supports Google Cloud Marketplace purchasing for Harness Software Delivery Platform through private offers and for Harness Continuous Delivery through both public and private offers.
- Microsoft Azure: Harness integrates with Microsoft Azure services and workflows, including AKS, Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Container Registry, Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure DevOps-related tooling.
Key People
- Jyoti Bansal: Co-Founder & CEO
- Rishi Singh: Co-Founder & Board Member
- Bill Koefoed: Chief Financial Officer
- Carlos Delatorre: Chief Revenue Officer
- Luan Lam: Chief People Officer
- Gleb Brichko: Chief Marketing Officer
- Sanjay Nagaraj: SVP, Engineering
- Bala Venkatrao: SVP & GM of Platform
- Hanna Steinbach: General Counsel
Key Facts
- Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
- Employees: 1,200+
- Annual Revenue: $250M+ ARR
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: 10 active subsidiaries, including Harness Australia PTY LTD, Harness Group UK Limited, Harness Germany GmbH, Harness Canada Corp., and Harnessio R&D Labs India Private Limited.
- Publicly Listed: Private
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms.
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025. Leader in the 2025 Forrester Wave™ for Continuous Delivery & Release Automation. Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management and Optimization (CCMO), Q3 2024.
