Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer - Secure Cloud

Harvey AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 231,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Kubernetes security patterns

Multi-cloud exposure

Job summary

Harvey AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer to set the security direction for our multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will design least-privilege models, build reusable security patterns, and drive secure-by-default practices across engineering teams.

You’ll mentor peers, review critical configurations, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to reduce risk while enabling rapid innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in Security Engineering and/or Software Engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in networking, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, common misconfigurations, and privilege escalation vectors.
• Experience applying security best practices in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Track record of driving cross-functional security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate secure design principles into our cloud architecture.
• Establish reusable security patterns, standards, and guardrails that enable product and platform teams to build securely by default.
• Develop isolation mechanisms (e.g. sandboxing) in collaboration with our product engineering team.
• Review security-critical configuration changes and act as Codeowner for security-critical parts of our cloud configurations (everything is IaC).
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams to manage risks and vulnerabilities in our Cloud environment; translate security requirements into concrete engineering investments; define infrastructure security architecture and roadmaps.
• Mentor and develop other security engineers on the team, raising the overall technical bar.

Skills

Security Engineering

Software Engineering

Networking

Operating Systems

Cryptographic Protocols

Kubernetes

Cloud Security

Vulnerability Management

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

Cloud Security Tools

Job description

Harvey AI is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer to set the security direction for our multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will design least-privilege models, build reusable security patterns, and drive secure-by-default practices across engineering teams.

You’ll mentor peers, review critical configurations, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to reduce risk while enabling rapid innovation.