Staff Software Engineer, Harvey

Core Infrastructure

$250-290k

This role is eligible to participate in our equity plan

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Bash

Terraform

Sentry

Azure

Datadog

Pulumi

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

Open for applications

Domain-specific AI for legal and professional services

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLegalSaaS

Open for applications

$250-290k

This role is eligible to participate in our equity plan

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Bash

Terraform

Sentry

Azure

Datadog

Pulumi

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceLegalSaaS

Company mission

To help professionals develop expertise, faster.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

What the job involves

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
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

Our take

The explosive popularity of generative AI tools has seen specialized solutions popping up for all kinds of industries. Hoping to help supercharge efficiency and productivity for legal teams, Harvey supplies generative AI that can assist with documentation, as well as aid research and optimize workflows.

Via natural language instructions, Harvey helps draft and analyze legal documents. It can also answer complex questions across large document sets, or even handle research queries that cover multiple domains in legal, regulatory and tax.

Its ability to support legal practitioners as if it's another member of the team is what makes Harvey particularly interesting. This approach has seen the company raise substantial funding, reaching Unicorn status in 2024. Funds are now being used to expand to new geographies, grow headcount and further collect and curate data to train more “domain-specific” AI models.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Oct 2025

$160m

LATE VC

Oct 2025

$59m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $1.0bn

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Winston Weinberg

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Graduated with a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law, then spent 1 year as an Associate at O'Melveny & Myers before founding Harvey.

Gabe Pereyra

(Co-Founder & President)

Previously worked as a Research Scientist at Meta and DeepMind. Also spent a year as a Brain Resident at Google.

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