Staff Software Engineer: Developer Experience & AI Platform

Harvey, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 238,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team in San Francisco. You will design and scale a world‑class developer platform, enabling rapid AI‑powered feature delivery across the company.

You’ll own CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and platform tooling while collaborating with every engineering group to improve reliability and velocity. You’ll mentor engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and apply AI to boost productivity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience 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 (Buildkite, 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Collaboration

Tools

Buildkite

Github Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

Harvey, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team in San Francisco. You will design and scale a world‑class developer platform, enabling rapid AI‑powered feature delivery across the company.

You’ll own CI/CD systems, testing frameworks, and platform tooling while collaborating with every engineering group to improve reliability and velocity. You’ll mentor engineers, shape the technical roadmap, and apply AI to boost productivity.