Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Harvey
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 238,000 - 290,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Leadership","Communication"]

Senior software engineer role on the Developer Experience team, building and scaling Harvey’s internal developer platform, CI/CD systems, and AI-enabled tooling to accelerate engineering velocity. You’ll own framework and platform development across the stack, mentor engineers, drive reliability and observability, and push for AI-driven productivity improvements in a fast-growing, enterprise AI-native environment.

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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Summary

Senior software engineer role on the Developer Experience team, building and scaling Harvey’s internal developer platform, CI/CD systems, and AI-enabled tooling to accelerate engineering velocity. You’ll own framework and platform development across the stack, mentor engineers, drive reliability and observability, and push for AI-driven productivity improvements in a fast-growing, enterprise AI-native environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments.
  • •Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications.
  • •Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
  • •Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test and maintain.
  • •Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with confidence.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 238,000 - 290,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
  • •Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
  • •Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Builtekite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
  • •Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).
  • •A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code, consistently following software development best practices to ensure quality and reliability.
Experience:7+ yearsEnterprise softwareBackend systemsDistributed systems
Skills:Problem-solvingLeadershipCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonDockerKubernetesPulumiTerraformGitHub Actions

Company Brief

Harvey
Harvey builds domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services, automating contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation workflows for law firms and corporate legal teams.
Industry: LegalTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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