Harvey
Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
San Francisco. Posted 6 months ago
The role
You will design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems for an AI platform. You will own multi-cloud infrastructure, lead technical initiatives for observability and incident response, and mentor engineers.
What you will do
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems
- Own and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, networking, and container management
- Lead technical initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence
- Architect and optimize distributed systems for reliability
- Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Pulumi
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code and design reviews
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering in a production environment
- Long track record building and scaling complex, large-scale distributed systems
- Deep proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms
- Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools — Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, and cloud security at scale
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, Incident.io)
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
- Excellent problem-solving skills
Nice to have
- Experience building infrastructure for AI/ML workloads or high-throughput inference systems
- Background with distributed rate limiting, load balancing, or quota management systems
- Experience operating multi-tenant platforms with strict security and compliance requirements
- Track record of leading complex cross-functional projects and delivering measurable impact
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
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.