Harvey
Posted 7mo ago

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Harvey
San Francisco, California, United States
$238k-$290k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • Develop platform
  • Build testing
  • Pioneer AI integration
Requirements
  • 7+ years software engineering
  • Python
  • CI/CD
  • Docker/Kubernetes
  • IaC
  • Leadership
  • Mentoring
  • Collaboration
Technical tools mentioned
PythonGitHub ActionsBuildkiteDockerKubernetesPulumiTerraform

Job description

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 700+ customers in 58+ 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

The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges. We build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will be responsible for creating frameworks and systems that maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey. You’ll work across the entire tech stack and collaborate with every team to instill reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. You'll also have a unique opportunity to apply AI directly to the problem of developer productivity, defining the future of software development within an AI-native company.

If you are passionate about building foundational platforms to enable other engineers to move fast with confidence, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

  • 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.

  • Set the strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience as Harvey expands, and contribute strategically to team decision-making.

  • Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship, upholding a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.

What You Have

  • 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.

  • Proven technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle, including ideation, design, implementation, and productionization.

  • Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture to foster engineering excellence.

  • Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive

  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback.

  • Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus.

Compensation Range

$238,000 - $290,000 USD

Please find our CA applicant privacy notice here.

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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 [email protected]

About Harvey

Developing AI solutions for legal and professional services.

Year founded
2022
Employees
1261
Industries
Organization type
Private
Latest investment
Raised $200.00M Series G (2026)
Headquarters
US

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