Staff Software Engineer, Secure Execution Platform

Harvey, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 231,000 - 346,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is building a secure AI-enabled platform for legal and professional services. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team, you will be a founding member shaping execution environments and sandboxing strategies for agent-based workloads.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production, defining architecture, implementing protections, and ensuring reliable, scalable operation across teams with a hands-on approach.

Qualifications

• 10+ years developing and running production software.
• Strong expertise in security-focused software engineering.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Ability to translate threats into enforceable boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for secure agent execution.
• Design, build, and operate a platform for security agents to discover and validate vulnerabilities.
• Build reusable controls for agent tool use, code execution, network and filesystem access, and data protection.
• Partner with Harvey's product sandbox and internal agent platform to apply protections.
• Enable internal use of open-source models with proper protections around data access.
• Lead delivery, mentor engineers, and balance security, reliability, latency, and cost.

Skills

Go

Rust

Python

C++

Linux

Networking

Containerization

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Adversarial testing

Tools

Go

Rust

Python

C++

Linux

Networking

Containerization

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Adversarial testing

Job description

Harvey is building a secure AI-enabled platform for legal and professional services. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team, you will be a founding member shaping execution environments and sandboxing strategies for agent-based workloads.

You will own end-to-end delivery from design through production, defining architecture, implementing protections, and ensuring reliable, scalable operation across teams with a hands-on approach.