Senior Software Engineer Backend Core Infrastructure

Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.

Series F+Recently funded
Distributed
About Harvey

Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.

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About the Role

You will design scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure across cloud regions and evolve multi-cloud systems. You will improve observability, incident response, distributed-system reliability, and infrastructure-as-code practices while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product Engineering and Security.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of Core Backend Infrastructure Engineering or Backend Platform Engineering experience
  • Experience building and scaling complex distributed systems
  • Cloud infrastructure proficiency, with Azure preferred
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking, and cloud security
  • Experience with Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, or Incident.io
  • Programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Authorization to work in India

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems across cloud regions
  • Own and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management
  • Lead observability, incident-response, and operational-excellence initiatives
  • Architect distributed systems for reliability, load balancing, quota management, and failover
  • Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Pulumi
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership