--- title: 'Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM at Harvey' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-security-software-engineer-iam-harvey-san-francisco-xap0gkcpp5xv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-12' --- # Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM at Harvey - **Company:** [Harvey](https://feeny.ai/companies/harvey) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/d16bd223-cb68-46f3-8bf6-41267b9770cb ## 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 Staff Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team, you will be a founding member of the team and define and drive the technical strategy for identity and access at Harvey — both how customers authenticate to Harvey, as well as how internal employees, contractors, and non-human identities access company systems, what they are authorized to do, and how seamlessly access adapts as needs change. Challenges ahead include exploring how AI-powered access management can understand employee needs, recommend appropriate permissions, streamline decisions, and adapt access as roles and responsibilities evolve, as well as shaping an end user/agent authentication experience that makes signing in to Harvey fast, consistent, reliable, and secure across every surface where our customers work. You will operate at the boundary of security, infrastructure, and product engineering — turning ambitious business and technical requirements into durable identity platforms, clear architectural direction, and exceptional user experiences. This role is hands-on, but its primary leverage comes through technical direction, platform adoption, cross-functional alignment, and enabling other engineers to build on strong identity foundations. ## What you'll do - Define Harvey's multi-year technical strategy for identity, authentication, authorization, and privileged access. - Design and build complex identity systems from greenfield — writing the code, instrumenting it, and owning it in production. - Lead the architecture and execution of cross-functional initiatives to right-size access at scale, spanning identity and authentication, permissions and authorization, entitlement modeling, and access controls. - Extend the identity model to non-human and agentic identities, so that AI agents acting on behalf of users are authenticated, scoped, and auditable. - Serve as the technical authority for identity and access architecture and guide major design reviews, investment decisions, and long-term roadmaps. ## What You Have - 10+ years experience building and operating production software, with demonstrated impact across multiple teams or technical domains. - Deep expertise in several identity and access engineering domains — authentication, federation, authorization, entitlement modeling, or privileged access. - Fluency with AI: you use AI-assisted development tools effectively while applying strong engineering judgment, and you design agentic workflows that automate repetitive toil and improve how teams operate. - Experience designing identity or authorization platforms, libraries, or abstractions used by other engineering teams. - Experience delivering foundational systems that achieve meaningful adoption and improve organizational or customer outcomes. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services, and modern distributed-system patterns. - Strong communication skills and the ability to create alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders. ## Nice to have - Experience with System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), OpenID Connect (OIDC), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or Cedar, Zanzibar-style authorization systems, or hardware-backed credentials. - Experience with identity governance and administration (IGA) or privileged access management (PAM) platforms, and with automating joiner, mover, and leaver workflows. - Experience building identity platforms or programs at a hyper-growth startup. - Experience with regulated environments such as FedRAMP, including phishing-resistant authentication and authenticator assurance requirements. ## Compensation $231,000 - $340,000 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. 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