Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Los Angeles +2
About this role
Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Join Harvey's Core Infrastructure team to build the foundational backbone of a global legal AI platform. This critical role involves designing and scaling the systems that process billions of prompt tokens and millions of daily requests. You'll shape the reliability, scalability, and security of the platform serving the world's leading law firms and professional service providers.
What you'll do
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that power Harvey's AI platform across multiple cloud regions.
- Own and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure on Azure and GCP, including Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management.
- Lead technical initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence to enable rapid detection and resolution of issues.
- Architect and optimize distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing, quota management, and failover mechanisms.
- Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams to ensure infrastructure accelerates rather than constrains the platform.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Pulumi to enable reproducible, auditable deployments.
- Mentor junior and intern engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization through code reviews and technical leadership.
What Harvey is looking for
- 4+ years of Infrastructure or Platform Engineering experience in production environments, with a proven track record building and scaling large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms, with Azure preferred (GCP or AWS experience transfers well).
- Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, and cloud security at scale.
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog and Sentry, and incident response practices using PagerDuty or Incident.io.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a commitment to operational excellence.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
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