---
title: 'Software Engineer, Security at Harvey'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-security-harvey-san-francisco-z3ywsar7z0ys'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-21'
---

# Software Engineer, Security at Harvey

- **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-21
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/d2624850-8dd4-4eb4-b5dc-f386b715a26f

## Job description

## Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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. We have 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 moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

## Role Overview

As a Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team at Harvey, you'll build and operate foundational security services for both our customer-facing product and the internal systems our workforce depends on: identity and access management, secrets and privileged access, agent sandboxes, and tooling that makes the secure path the fast path. You'll turn security needs into production systems and own the reliability and security of what you build, working closely with engineers and partner teams along the way. Attackers increasingly operate at agent speed, so we’re building defenses that can keep pace. Security at Harvey is an engineering discipline, not a gatekeeper function. We build platforms and libraries that make it hard for engineers to get security wrong, and we measure ourselves on adoption and outcomes rather than tickets filed. Our program is informed by risk: we invest where the actual exposure to our most sensitive data and resources is greatest, rather than where a framework tells us to.

## What You'll Do

- Build and operate Harvey’s core identity and access services across customer-facing product, workforce, and infrastructure systems, including authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets, and privileged access
- Evolve how Harvey customers set up and manage their environments, making security-critical configuration—from identity and access to policies and integrations—delightful to use and secure by default
- Build identity controls, sandboxes, and safety harnesses that let services and AI agents operate with least privilege, constrained actions, clear auditability, and effective monitoring
- Create secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, self-service tooling, and agentic workflows that automate security triage, remediation, and evidence collection
- Take security systems from design through production, accounting for trust boundaries, attacker paths, and operational failure modes while owning their reliability and security
- Share an on-call rotation for Harvey’s mission-critical security services, contribute to incident response, and raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, and clear documentation

## What You Have

- 2+ years of software engineering experience, including experience shipping and operating production services
- Experience building or contributing to security infrastructure such as identity and access management, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access
- Strong programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across unfamiliar systems and domains
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services and familiarity with modern distributed-system patterns
- A track record of translating security requirements into maintainable, automated systems
- Experience using agentic coding tools and creating workflows that automate repetitive security work, with the judgment to review their output critically and measure whether they improve security outcomes
- Clear communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to engineering partners
- Working knowledge of common vulnerability classes and the ability to reason about how a system fails under an attacker, not just under load

## Nice to Have

- Experience building security infrastructure at a fast-growing company
- Experience with SCIM; OpenID Connect (OIDC); Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML); policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Cedar, or Zanzibar-style systems; or hardware-backed credentials
- Experience securing agentic or AI-powered systems, especially systems that act on behalf of users against sensitive data
- Experience working in a highly regulated enterprise environment

## Compensation

$161,000 - $245,000 USD

Depending on your location, an Applicant Privacy Notice may apply to you. You can find all of our Applicant Privacy Notices [[here](https://www.notion.so/harveyai/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Policies-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922)].

## #LI-NP1

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 accommodations@harvey.ai

## About Harvey

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Harvey builds domain-specific AI software for legal and professional services, enabling law firms and in-house teams to automate research, contract analysis, due diligence, and complex workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by leading venture capital firms)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Winston Weinberg (CEO), Gabriel Pereyra (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI software for legal and professional services (LegalTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large law firms (AmLaw 100), in-house legal teams at Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized firms, and professional service networks across 60+ countries.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To enable legal and professional services teams to focus on high-value work by providing a secure, expert AI platform that handles research, drafting, and complex workflows.

## Products & Services
- **Harvey Assistant**: Ask questions, analyze documents, and draft faster with domain-specific AI (SaaS).
- **Harvey Vault**: Securely store, organize, and bulk-analyze legal documents (SaaS).
- **Harvey Knowledge**: Research complex legal, regulatory, and tax questions across domains (SaaS).
- **Harvey Agents**: Purpose-built agents that execute complex legal work end-to-end (SaaS).
- **Harvey Contract Intelligence**: Surface insights, strengthen negotiations, and accelerate reviews (SaaS).
- **Harvey Command Center**: Analytics, benchmarking, and agentic insights for leading AI transformation (SaaS).
- **Harvey Mobile**: Mobile access to stay productive from anywhere (SaaS).
- **Harvey Shared Spaces**: Collaborate with legal teams across organizations in secure shared workspaces (SaaS).
- **Harvey Ecosystem**: Integration with existing tools to ground answers in trusted sources (API/platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (company is private).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – reported in press but exact figure not disclosed; strong growth implied by 1,500+ customers and rapid hiring.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV (Google Ventures), OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, EQT.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named Time100 Most Influential Companies (2025).
  - LinkedIn Top 50 Startup of 2025.
  - CNBC Disruptor 50 List.
  - 1,500+ customers across 60+ countries, including AmLaw 100 firms.
  - Headcount: ~300 employees (as of mid-2025), with aggressive hiring (254 active job postings).
  - Office expansion: San Francisco, New York City, London.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain specialization**: AI models trained specifically for legal and professional services, not generic LLMs.
- **Enterprise security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701/42001, GDPR, CCPA compliance – meeting law firm security requirements.
- **Deep investor backing**: World-class VC network provides strategic guidance and access.
- **Strong product‑market fit**: Rapid adoption by top-tier law firms and in-house teams, with high switching costs due to embedded workflows.
- **First‑mover in agentic legal AI**: Purpose‑built agents execute end‑to‑end tasks, differentiating from simple document Q&A tools.

## Strategic Focus
- **Customization, collaboration, and simplicity**: Helping teams embed expertise into Harvey, collaborate across firms, and reduce complexity via agentic workflows.
- **Expansion beyond legal**: Long‑term ambition to transform professional services broadly (consulting, accounting, etc.).
- **Product innovation**: Continued investment in agentic AI, mobile access, and ecosystem integrations.
- **Global growth**: Scaling sales and engineering teams in existing hubs and expanding into new markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced, collaborative, ambitious. Values include **Decisiveness** (“take the square root of the weather” – avoid overanalysis), **Simplicity**, and **Job’s Not Finished** (continuous improvement).
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – 3+ days per week in office for roles based in San Francisco, New York City, or London. Some fully remote positions available (clearly marked).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid parental leave (immediately eligible), annual professional development stipend, in‑office daily lunch, and more.
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling (~300 employees, 254 open roles) provides internal mobility and ownership of impactful projects.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong blend of AI research (DeepMind background) and legal domain expertise. CTO Siva Gurumurthy recently joined. Emphasis on building secure, enterprise‑grade products.

## Sources
1. [harvey.ai](https://www.harvey.ai/)
2. [harvey.ai/company](https://www.harvey.ai/company)
3. [harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey](https://www.harvey.ai/blog/landing-a-job-at-harvey)
4. [linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvey-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey)

## Other roles at Harvey

- [Account Executive, Mid Market - Berlin](https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-mid-market-berlin-harvey-munich-ev707kb896n2) — Munich, Germany
- [Account Executive, Mid Market, EMEA](https://feeny.ai/job/account-executive-mid-market-emea-harvey-milan-rdwja8eg2f83) — Milan, Italy
- [Mid-Market Customer Success Manager (Toronto)](https://feeny.ai/job/mid-market-customer-success-manager-toronto-harvey-toronto-9hbnke1w04j3) — Toronto, Canada
- [Technical CX Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-cx-specialist-harvey-remote-qmgrdzny4ea8)
- [Sales Manager - SMB](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-manager-smb-harvey-chicago-nkk6q28wd6eb) — Chicago, IL
- [Field Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/field-marketing-manager-harvey-chicago-34gt6r83c8f2) — Chicago, IL
- [Global Operations Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/global-operations-lead-harvey-remote-1v3406jpyp62)
- [Global Operations Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/global-operations-lead-harvey-san-francisco-m69s53z5c0y6) — San Francisco, CA
- [Global Operations Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/global-operations-lead-harvey-new-york-b6nqvs3w8pe6) — New York, NY
- [Director, Commercial Legal, EMEA](https://feeny.ai/job/director-commercial-legal-emea-harvey-london-32s1h3jv0t6y) — London, United Kingdom