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Harvey

Software Engineer, Security

San Francisco$161k–$245kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Build foundational security services for Harvey's AI-powered legal tech platform, including identity management, access controls, and agent sandboxes. You'll design and operate production security systems that enable secure, least-privilege operations across customer-facing and internal infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Design and operate identity, authentication, authorization, and secrets management services across product and infrastructure
  • Build secure-by-default libraries and abstractions that make it difficult for engineers to implement security incorrectly
  • Create identity controls and sandboxes constraining AI agent actions with least privilege and clear auditability
  • Develop self-service tooling and automated workflows for security triage, remediation, and evidence collection
  • Own end-to-end security system reliability, including production operations and incident response participation
  • Conduct design and code reviews, raising engineering standards through clear documentation and threat analysis

What they're looking for

  • Production service design and operation
  • Identity and access management (IAM) or secrets management
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Security threat modeling and attacker-path analysis
  • Distributed systems and modern architecture patterns
  • Incident response and on-call operations
  • Cross-team communication and technical risk explanation
  • Programming and debugging in production environments
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Harvey

Harvey builds an AI-powered legal services platform that automates and streamlines legal workflows for corporate, in-house, transactional, and litigation teams. The company is hiring Legal Engineers with diverse practice backgrounds to bridge customers and product development, uncovering legal workflow challenges and shaping the platform's direction based on real-world legal work.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a security infrastructure system you've built or operated—what were the key trust boundaries and how did you validate them under attack scenarios?
  • Describe your experience with identity and access management. Which systems have you worked with, and what trade-offs did you navigate?
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