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Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer

Harvey· Engineering
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San Francisco$238k - $290k + equityFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Site Reliability team responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of Harvey's legal AI platform across 50+ regions, with emphasis on automation, incident management, security, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure resources (compute, storage, networking) across 50+ global regions
  • Lead incident management processes, including postmortems, root cause analyses, and driving actionable improvements
  • Automate operational tasks and workflows, building tools and processes for capacity planning, graceful rollouts, and safe data access to maintain high reliability and reduce manual intervention
  • Establish best practices for security, compliance, and reliability and collaborate across teams to drive these principles throughout the software lifecycle
  • Optimize infrastructure costs through strategic capacity planning and build-versus-buy decisions while maintaining system performance, reliability, and functionality
  • Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles supporting production environments, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams
  • Expertise in infrastructure as code(IaC) tools (Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
  • Deep familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, etc.) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, IncidentIO, etc.)
  • Proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS, etc.)
  • Strong programming skills (Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages)
  • Proven track record of diagnosing complex system problems and implementing durable solutions
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD, Kubernetes, containerization, networking, databases, and cloud security principles
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to operational excellence

Skills

Required:Infrastructure as codeObservability and incident responseCloud platformsProgramming

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • flexible PTO
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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