Staff Infra Engineer - Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Relocation

Harvey; California (MO); On-site; USD 236,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Core Infrastructure in San Francisco, CA, to design and scale infrastructure powering its global AI platform. The role balances building new systems with operational excellence, ensuring reliability and security across regions, customers, and usage.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC and CI/CD improvements, and collaborate with security and product teams to keep the platform resilient and efficient as Harvey grows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure/Platform Engineering in a production environment.
• Proven track record building and scaling complex distributed systems.
• Deep proficiency with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; GCP or AWS transfer well).
• Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes, networking, and cloud security at scale.
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry) and incident response (PagerDuty, Incident.io).
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure powering Harvey's AI platform across cloud regions.
• Own and evolve multi-cloud infra (Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes, networking, and container management.
• Lead initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence.
• Architect and optimize distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing and quota management.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Security to ensure infra accelerates development.
• Drive infra-as-code practices using Terraform and Pulumi for reproducible deployments.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews and design reviews.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Cloud architecture

Observability

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Datadog

Sentry

PagerDuty

Incident.io

Python

Job description

Harvey is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Core Infrastructure in San Francisco, CA, to design and scale infrastructure powering its global AI platform. The role balances building new systems with operational excellence, ensuring reliability and security across regions, customers, and usage.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC and CI/CD improvements, and collaborate with security and product teams to keep the platform resilient and efficient as Harvey grows.