Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevExp) at Harvey

Why Harvey

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 500+ customers in 50+ 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

At Harvey, we believe the developer experience is a force multiplier. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Developer Experience team, you’ll be responsible for building the systems and tools that empower every engineer at Harvey to move and ship faster. You’ll work across the stack and with every team, driving reliability, automation, and simplicity into our developer workflows. We’re looking for engineers who care deeply about craftsmanship, and who are excited to shape the foundation of how software is built at Harvey.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to facilitate reliable, frequent software deployments

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to streamline workflows and reduce friction in the development lifecycle

• Develop automation tools and processes to significantly improve developer experience and productivity

• Monitor and manage software releases, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery from any disruptions

• Lead incident management and postmortem processes, conducting root cause analyses to improve system reliability

• Maintain clear, comprehensive documentation for all release processes and infrastructure systems

• Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

What You Have 

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, DevProd, or similar roles supporting software development environments, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams

• Expertise in CI/CD best practices and tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

• Strong programming skills (Python, Bash, Go, or other scripting languages)

• Excellent understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and project management abilities — you make other engineers better

• Previous experience enhancing developer productivity through tooling and automation

• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to solve complex operational issues

• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, etc.) and incident response practices (PagerDuty, IncidentIO, etc.)

• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

Compensation Range

$250,000 - $290,000 USD

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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing [email protected].