Harvey
Senior Product Security Engineer
San Francisco, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will build security directly into the product and drive high-leverage security initiatives. This role involves balancing hands-on technical work with cross-functional leadership and mentorship.
What you will do
- Lead critical security initiatives with Engineering, Product and Design.
- Build cross-functional partnerships and repeatable business processes at scale.
- Define and implement product security standards.
- Incorporate secure design principles at every stage of development.
- Proactively identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in our systems.
- Develop and implement solutions to safeguard Harvey products.
- Review product features and engineering code changes
- Drive secure baselines and security-first principles company-wide.
- Build secure-by-default libraries and tooling that enable product velocity at scale.
- Mentor and guide engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in product security, application security, offensive security, and/or security-focused software engineering
- Experience identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities, demonstrated through CVEs, bug bounty awards, published research, or prior work experience.
- Experience delivering high-quality, production software.
- Ability to drive prioritization and tradeoff discussions with cross functional teams.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly when translating security risks into business terms for non-security stakeholders.
- Excel at measuring and communicating security metrics and business risk reduction as it relates to product security investments.
- Experience mentoring engineers across engineering through code and design reviews.
- Proactive approach to solving complex security challenges.
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
Nice to have
- Experience building security programs or practices at hyper-growth startups
- Background with cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS) and cloud-native security patterns
- Experience with AI/ML systems and emerging security considerations for LLM-based applications
About the company
Harvey is transforming how legal and professional services operate by combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise.