Security Engineer: Identity & Access Automation

Harvey, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team to build and operate foundational security services for our product and internal systems, including identity and access management, secrets, and privileged access. You will turn security needs into production systems and work closely with engineers and partner teams to keep defenses up-to-date.

This role emphasizes security engineering as a discipline, delivering secure-by-default libraries, automated workflows, and reliable

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience shipping and operating production services.
• Experience building security infrastructure such as identity and access management, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access.
• Strong programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) and familiarity with modern distributed-system patterns.
• Track record of translating security requirements into automated systems.
• Experience using agentic coding tools and creating workflows that automate repetitive security work.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate Harvey’s core identity and access services across customer-facing product, workforce, and infrastructure systems, including authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets, and privileged access.
• Evolve how Harvey customers set up and manage their environments, making security-critical configuration— from identity and access to policies and integrations— secure by default.
• Build identity controls, sandboxes, and safety harnesses that let services and AI agents operate with least privilege, auditable actions, and effective monitoring.
• Create secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, self-service tooling, and agentic workflows that automate security triage, remediation, and evidence collection.
• Take security systems from design through production, accounting for trust boundaries, attacker paths, and operational failure modes while owning their reliability and security.
• Share an on-call rotation for Harvey’s mission-critical security services, contribute to incident response, and raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and clear documentation.

Tools

Azure

GCP

AWS

OPA

Job description

Harvey is seeking a Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team to build and operate foundational security services for our product and internal systems, including identity and access management, secrets, and privileged access. You will turn security needs into production systems and work closely with engineers and partner teams to keep defenses up-to-date.

This role emphasizes security engineering as a discipline, delivering secure-by-default libraries, automated workflows, and reliable