Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM

Job summary

Responsibilities

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…

• 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…
• 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 they're looking for

• 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…
• 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.

Tech stack

• Azure
• GCP
• AWS