Security Engineer – Identity & Access Platforms

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team to build and operate foundational security services for both customer-facing product and internal systems. You will own authentication, authorization, secrets management, and privileged access, ensuring secure by default configurations.

You will collaborate with engineers, handle on-call rotations, and contribute to incident response while advancing risk-based security practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience with production services.
• Experience with identity and access management, authentication, or secrets management.
• Strong programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Ability to translate security requirements into automated systems.
• Experience creating agentic workflows to automate security tasks.
• Clear communication and collaboration with engineering partners.
• Understanding of vulnerability classes and failure modes.

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—delightful to use and secure by default.
• Build identity controls, sandboxes, and safety harnesses that let services and AI agents operate with least privilege, constrained actions, clear auditability, 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

Skills

Software engineering

Security infrastructure

Cloud platforms

Agentic workflows

Communication skills

Tools

Azure

GCP

AWS

Job description

Harvey is seeking a Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team to build and operate foundational security services for both customer-facing product and internal systems. You will own authentication, authorization, secrets management, and privileged access, ensuring secure by default configurations.

You will collaborate with engineers, handle on-call rotations, and contribute to incident response while advancing risk-based security practices across the platform.