Staff Software Engineer, Platform

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

At Harvey, our platform team lays the foundation for everything we build. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll design and scale the core systems that power our legal AI product — from authentication and permissions to observability and integrations. You’ll work closely with product, infra, and security teams to drive velocity, reliability, and compliance across the stack. This is a high-leverage role for engineers who love building systems that scale and thrive on cross-functional collaboration.

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

• Collaborate cross-functionally to implement core abstractions and services that increase product velocity: notifications, data fetching patterns, data access abstractions, etc.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and compliance for platform services like permissions management, admin reporting, and customizations.
• Develop and enhance platform features including authentication, compliance, and enterprise integrations across the legal tech ecosystem
• Partner closely with product teams to seamlessly integrate new features into core platform
• Establish best practices in security, compliance, and maintainability throughout development cycles
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

What You Have

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of software development experience, particularly in backend systems or platform services, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams
• Proficiency in backend-focused languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, or similar
• Experience with large-scale high-traffic applications, distributed systems, and scalable data storage solutions
• Experience with enterprise software features like permissions (RBAC), analytics, audit logs, notifications, self-serve onboarding, and provisioning
• Experience with authentication frameworks (SSO, SCIM, OAuth), compliance, and security best practices
• Experience with API development and enterprise integrations (SaaS, on-prem)