Senior Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Harvey•San Francisco, CA

1d•$315,000 - $330,000

About The Position

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 60+ countries, 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 is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started. Role Overview Our infrastructure is the foundation that powers every user interaction with Harvey. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Core Infrastructure team — the group responsible for building reliable, scalable, and secure systems that support our legal AI platform globally. This role will own cloud infrastructure, observability, container orchestration, and core platform reliability. You’ll report to our VP of Engineering andbe guideing a team of high-agency engineers, and partnering closely with security and product teams to ensure our infra is an accelerant, not a constraint. At Harvey, we value Decisiveness, Simplicity, and the mindset that Job's Not Finished. We move fast, prioritize clarity, and are always striving for excellence. If this resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

3+ years of engineering management experience and 8+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi).
Strong understanding of observability stacks (e.g. Datadog, Sentry) and incident response workflows.
Experience with CI/CD, networking, and security principles at scale.
A track record of designing and scaling systems with reliability and performance in mind.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a bias toward clarity and action, especially in incident management and customer communication.
A systems mindset and passion for simplifying complex infrastructure.
A track record of leading complex cross-functional projects and delivering measurable impact.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to ML or LLM infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of engineers focused on infrastructure, networking, and platform reliability.
Own cloud operations, scaling worldwide while ensuring high availability and performance.
Partner with Harvey’s AI Labs to deliver scalable, cost-efficient LLM model infrastructure across products.
Build and harden a highly secure infrastructure foundation that the world’s top law firms and global enterprises can trust.
Drive key initiatives around observability, cost optimization, disaster recovery, and infrastructure security.
Oversee infrastructure-as-code practices across the engineering org.
Guide technical decision-making for container orchestration, service meshes, data infrastructure, and more.
Hire, grow, and retain exceptional engineers who thrive in a high-trust, high-impact environment.
Collaborate cross-functionally to align infrastructure work with product roadmap and company goals.
Foster a culture of operational excellence, blameless incident response, and continuous improvement.