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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Harvey· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$231k - $340kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and scaling Harvey's developer experience platform, CI/CD systems, and AI-enhanced tooling to boost engineer velocity, reliability, and productivity across the company.

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.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 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 (Builtekite, 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.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture to foster engineering excellence.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback.
  • Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus.

Skills

Required:PythonBackend development and distributed systemsCI/CD systemsTest frameworks and load/performance testingContainer technologies and IaCTechnical leadershipCommunication and collaboration
Nice to have:AI agents integration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • flexible PTO
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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