Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss, A&O Shearman, Ashurst, O'Melveny & Myers, PwC, KKR, and many others.
• Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.
• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.
• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.
• Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.
• Competitive compensation.

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Harvey, you'll play a critical role in designing and building new infrastructure systems while equally scaling and strengthening the existing infrastructure systems. Your contributions will ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our cutting-edge legal AI platform. You'll work in an environment balanced between innovation — building new systems — and operational excellence, ensuring that Harvey remains resilient and efficient as it scales products, regions, customers, and usage.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and deploy new infrastructure services and automation tools to support platform growth and new product initiatives.
• Manage and optimize existing infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking) across 50+ global regions.
• Lead incident management processes, including postmortems, root cause analyses, and driving actionable improvements.
• Implement short-term and long-term infrastructure scaling strategies to improve reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Collaborate across teams to drive reliability, security, and compliance throughout the software lifecycle.
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth.

What You Have

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles in a production environment.
• Long track record building and scaling complex, large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Deep proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.).
• Strong programming skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, etc.) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, IncidentIO, etc.).
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, networking, databases, OS, cloud storage, cloud security, CI/CD, etc.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, a "spidey sense" of where things could go wrong, and a commitment to operational excellence.

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing interview-help@harvey.ai.