Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer

Harvey•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Some of the world's largest companies and their law firms use Harvey’s AI capabilities to deliver world-class client services at unprecedented scale and efficiency. Harvey allows high-performing professionals to gain deep domain knowledge faster, understand the big picture, and tackle more complex challenges in less time. Security is at the heart of what we do. Our customers trust us with their most sensitive data, and we take that responsibility seriously. As part of our team, you’ll help us maintain a secure, trustworthy, and compliant platform—an essential foundation for everything we build. As a Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer, you’ll set the technical direction for secure-by-default infrastructure security across Harvey’s platform, establishing the patterns and standards the broader engineering organization builds on.This includes designing and implementing processes and technologies for least privilege, isolating different components, managing attack surface, and implementing layers of tenant isolation on our multi-tenant SaaS offering. You’ll also create frameworks and repeatable patterns that enable our research and engineering teams to move quickly and independently—without sacrificing security. Our security program at Harvey is driven by our collective offensive security experience: breaking into systems at other companies (in white-hat capacities), responding to real security incidents, and learning from other companies’ data breaches. We regularly conduct penetration tests and red team exercises. At the same time, we are all software engineers - contributing code daily and approaching security with an engineering-first mindset.

Requirements

8+ years experience in Security Engineering, Software Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
Demonstrated experience writing high-quality software and building production-grade infrastructure and raising the quality bar of engineering teams
Strong fundamentals in networking, operating systems, and cryptographic protocols
In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, common misconfigurations, and privilege escalation vectors
Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g. privilege escalation) in real-world cloud environments
Experience applying security best practices in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
Track record of driving cross-functional security initiatives and influencing engineering decisions across teams
Experience setting security standards and best practices at an organizational scale

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with large-scale Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments
Familiarity with Kubernetes Admission Controllers and policy enforcement
Exposure to multi-cloud environments
No experience with generative AI or legal required

Responsibilities

Incorporate secure design principles into our cloud architecture.
Develop isolation mechanisms (e.g. sandboxing) in collaboration with our product engineering team
Review security-critical configuration changes and act as Codeowner for security-critical parts of our cloud configurations (everything is IaC)
Audit our existing cloud environment for vulnerabilities
Develop policies and procedures for the secure creation and operation of our cloud environments
Define Harvey’s infrastructure security architecture and multi-year roadmap, translating security requirements into concrete engineering investments
Establish reusable security patterns, standards, and guardrails that enable product and platform teams to build securely by default
Mentor and develop other security engineers on the team, raising the overall technical bar