Software Engineer, Harvey

• 4+ years of experience in product security, application security, offensive security, and/or security-focused software engineering
• Demonstrated experience writing high-quality software and raising the quality bar of software engineering teams
• Proven ability to identify software vulnerabilities, demonstrated through CVEs, bug bounty awards, blog posts, or prior work experience
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly with engineering teams

Desirable

• Some of the world's largest companies and their law firms use Harvey’s AI capabilities to deliver world-class client services at unprecedented scale and efficiency
• Harvey allows high-performing professionals to gain deep domain knowledge faster, understand the big picture, and tackle more complex challenges in less time
• Our customers depend on us to deliver a secure, trustworthy, and compliant platform. Earning the trust of our customers is a business enabler and we value it more than anything else
• As part of the Product Security team, you’ll help ensure Harvey is built in the most secure way possible
• You’ll take ownership of securing a specific part of the product and build strong relationships with the developers working in that area
• With these insights, you’ll advocate for and implement high-leverage security controls across the organization
• Our security program at Harvey is driven by our collective offensive security experience: Breaking into systems at other companies (in white-hat capacities), responding to real security incidents, and learning from other companies’ data breaches
• We regularly conduct penetration tests and red team exercises with external security firms. At the same time, we are all software engineers - contributing code daily and approaching security with an engineering-first mindset
• Partner closely with engineering teams to incorporate secure design principles at every stage of development
• Review security-critical code and own key parts of the product, including authentication and access control
• Contribute meaningfully to the Harvey code base. Some prior projects include:
• Refactoring our authentication stack to improve streamline execution
• Removing password use from the application
• Designing secure APIs for critical data access
• Build secure-by-default libraries and tools that make the secure path the easiest and most attractive choice for developers and their AI agents
• Audit the existing codebase for vulnerabilities
• Improve our static analysis and vulnerability management tooling
• Discover vulnerabilities through red team exercises
• Participate in and drive mitigation strategies during security related incident responses