Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Engineering
Compensation
$250K – $290K
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in our equity plan and benefits program. Benefits include, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%), and flexible PTO.

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.