Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Harvey; California (MO); On-site; USD 231,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is seeking a Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team. You will build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform guardrails enabling all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely.

You will work across the entire tech stack, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while applying AI to improve developer productivity in an AI-native company.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with backend or platform scale.
• Proficient in Python and distributed systems.
• Hands-on with CI/CD and container technologies.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading architectural decisions.
• Experience integrating AI agents into developer tooling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth with CI/CD systems and robust test environments.
• Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure for AI-native apps.
• Define and implement the future of software development with AI agents across lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed reliability and observability.
• Gather feedback from engineering teams and evangelize best practices across the org.
• Set strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience as Harvey grows.

Skills

7+ years of software engineering

Python

CI/CD systems

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi or Terraform

Code quality & testing

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

AI agents integration

Tools

Buildkite

Github Actions

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

Why Harvey

At 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

The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges. We build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship ambitious AI features rapidly and safely.

As a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team, you will be responsible for creating frameworks and systems that maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey. You’ll work across the entire tech stack and collaborate with every team to instill reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. You'll also have a unique opportunity to apply AI directly to the problem of developer productivity, defining the future of software development within an AI-native company.

If you are passionate about building foundational platforms to enable other engineers to move fast with confidence, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments..
• Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications.
• Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test and maintain.
• Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with confidence.
• Set the strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience as Harvey expands, and contribute strategically to team decision-making.
• Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship, upholding a high bar for engineering excellence across the team.

What You Have

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD systems (Builtekite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
• Hands‑on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).
• A track record of producing high-quality, well‑tested code, consistently following software development best practices to ensure quality and reliability.
• Proven technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle, including ideation, design, implementation, and productionization.
• Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture to foster engineering excellence.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback.
• Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus.

Compensation

$231,000 - $340,000

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