Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevExp)

Why Harvey

Harvey is a secure AI platform for legal and professional services that augments productivity and automates complex workflows. Harvey uses algorithms with reasoning-adept LLMs that have been customized and developed by our expert team of lawyers, engineers and research scientists. We’ve found product market fit and are scaling our team very quickly. Some reasons to join Harvey are:

• Exceptional product market fit: We have partnered with the largest law firms and professional service providers in the world, including Paul Weiss , A&O Shearman , Ashurst , O'Melveny & Myers, PwC , KKR, and many others.

• Strategic investors: Raised over $500 million from strategic investors including Sequoia, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and OpenAI.

• World-class team: Harvey is hiring the best talent from DeepMind, Google Brain, Stripe, FAIR, Tesla Autopilot, Glean, Superhuman, Figma, and more.

• Partnerships: Our engineers and researchers work directly with OpenAI to build the future of generative AI and redefine professional services.

• Performance: 4x ARR in 2024.

• Competitive compensation.

Role Overview

At Harvey, we believe the developer experience is a force multiplier. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Developer Experience team, you’ll be responsible for building the systems and tools that empower every engineer at Harvey to move and ship faster. You’ll work across the stack and with every team, driving reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. We’re looking for engineers who care deeply about craftsmanship, and who are excited to shape the foundation of how software is built at Harvey.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to facilitate reliable, frequent software deployments

• Collaborate closely with engineering, QA, and operations teams to streamline workflows and reduce friction in the development lifecycle

• Develop automation tools and processes to significantly improve developer experience and productivity

• Monitor and manage software releases, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery from any disruptions

• Lead incident management and postmortem processes, conducting root cause analyses to improve system reliability

• Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for all release processes and infrastructure systems

• Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

What You Have

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, DevProd, or similar roles supporting software development environments, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams

• Expertise in CI/CD best practices and tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

• Strong programming skills (Python, Bash, Go, or other scripting languages)

• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and project management abilities — you make other engineers better

• Previous experience enhancing developer productivity through tooling and automation

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to solve complex operational issues

• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, etc.) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, IncidentIO, etc.)

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

Compensation Range

$250,000 - $290,000 USD

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are in the early innings of a generational company. Joining early at a hypergrowth startup has proven to lead to exponential growth in responsibility, access, and ability. Apply here today!