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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

AI summary of the role

Harvey is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team to build CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable rapid and safe shipping of AI features across the engineering org.

What you’ll do

  • Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth.
  • Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure for AI-native applications.
  • Pioneer integration of AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform.

What you’ll bring

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
  • Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Builtekite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
  • Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).

Technologies

Python · CI/CD · Buildkite · GitHub Actions · Docker · Kubernetes · Pulumi · Terraform · AI agents · load testing

About Harvey

Agentic AI platform purpose-built for elite law firms and in-house legal teams to automate research, drafting, document review, and complex matter workflows.

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Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges. We build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely. As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will be responsible for creating frameworks and systems that maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey. You’ll work across the entire tech
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Why Harvey At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come. This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched. Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challen [... source excerpt omitted ...] meworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely. As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will be responsible for creating frameworks and systems that maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey. You’ll work across the entire tech stack and collaborate with every team to instill reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. You'll also have a unique opportunity to apply AI directly to the problem of developer productivity, defining the future of software development within an AI-native company. If you are passionate about building foundationa [... source excerpt omitted ...] development best practices to ensure quality and reliability. Proven technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle, including ideation, design, implementation, and productionization. Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture to foster engineering excellence. Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback. Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus. Compensation

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