What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure position at Harvey?
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 500 customers in 50 countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
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
$238,000 - $290,000 USD
Please find our CA applicant privacy notice here.
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.
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 500 customers in 50 countries, strong product-market fit, and world-class investor support, we’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.
Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
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.
- 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.
$238,000 - $290,000 USD
Please find our CA applicant privacy notice here.
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.
Salary : $238,000 - $290,000
