Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Job summary

Responsibilities

The Developer Experience team is what keeps Harvey’s fast growth momentum possible — the kind of fast where every week brings new products, new capabilities, and new challenges. We build the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all Harvey engineers to ship…

• Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and…
• Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications.
• Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test…
• Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with…

What they're looking for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Builtekite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
• Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).
• A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code, consistently following software development best practices to ensure quality and reliability.

Tech stack

• Python
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform