Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx) Job at Harvey (San Francisco)

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

Harvey

Location:
United States , San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

238000.00 - 290000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 58+ countries, 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. 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 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.

Job Responsibility:

Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments.
Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications.
Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test and maintain.
Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with confidence.
Set the strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience as Harvey expands, and contribute strategically to team decision-making.
Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship, upholding a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.

Requirements:

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)
A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code, consistently following software 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

Nice to have:

Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus

What we offer:

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
flexible PTO
Offers Equity
Offers Bonus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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