Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Harvey; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Core Infrastructure in Bengaluru, India. You will design and build scalable infrastructure that powers our global AI platform, handling billions of prompt tokens and millions of daily requests.

You will own multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP), Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management, while driving observability, security, and reliability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems powering Harvey's AI platform across multiple cloud regions
• Own and evolve our multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management
• Lead observability initiatives and incident response to ensure reliability and operational excellence
• Architect and optimize distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing, quota management, and failover
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Security teams to accelerate development without compromising security
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Pulumi for reproducible deployments
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through reviews and leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Azure

GCP

Job description

Why HarveyAt Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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. We have 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.Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Harvey, you'll play a critical role in designing and building new infrastructure systems while equally scaling and strengthening our existing infrastructure. Our infrastructure is the foundation that powers every user interaction with Harvey — processing billions of prompt tokens and millions of daily requests across our global legal AI platform.You'll work in an environment balanced between innovation — building new systems — and operational excellence, ensuring that Harvey remains resilient and efficient as it scales products, regions, customers, and usage. Your contributions will directly impact the reliability, scalability, and security of our platform as we serve the world's leading law firms and professional service providers.This role is based in Bengaluru, India.

What You'll Do

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that power Harvey's AI platform across multiple cloud regions
• Own and evolve our multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management
• Lead technical initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence — building systems that enable rapid detection and resolution of issues
• Architect and optimize our distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing, quota management, and failover mechanisms
• Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams to ensure our infrastructure is an accelerant, not a constraint
• Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform and Pulumi to enable reproducible, auditable deployments
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadershipRep