About the Role
As an early member of our Security team, you will play a key role in laying the foundation of the security and privacy of our products. Our security program at Harvey is driven by our collective offensive security experience: Breaking into systems at other companies (in white-hat capacities), responding to security incidents, and learning from data breaches. We conduct regular pentests and red team exercises with external security firms.
Responsibilities
- Closely work with engineering teams to incorporate secure design principles into engineering designs.
- Review security-critical code and act as Codeowner for security-critical parts of the product, including authentication, access control, and administration.
- Make well-scoped code contributions, e.g. add unit and integration tests for security controls, implement security features in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Manage the security aspects of our release process.
- Audit the existing codebase for vulnerabilities.
- Improve our static analysis and vulnerability management tooling.
- Discover vulnerabilities through red team exercises.
- Participate in and drive mitigation strategies during security related incident responses.
Requirements
- 4+ years’ experience in security-focused software engineering.
- Experience working at or with a small company or a hyper-growth startup.
- Demonstrated experience writing high-quality software and raising the quality bar of software engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to identify vulnerabilities in software, e.g. through CVEs, bug bounty awards, blog posts, and prior work experience.
Skills
- Offensive security
- Secure design principles
- Code review
- Authentication
- Access control
- Administration
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Security features
- Release process management
- Codebase auditing
- Static analysis
- Vulnerability management
- Red team exercises
- Incident response
- Cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS)
- Open source contributions
Experience Level
- 4+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $280,000
Benefits
- Equity plan
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
- Flexible PTO
About the Company
- 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 are 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.
- 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.
- Some of the world’s largest companies and their law firms use Harvey to make sense of their legal documents and automate legal work.
- Our customers depend on us to deliver a secure, trustworthy, and compliant platform.
- Earning the trust of our customers is a business enabler and we value it more than anything else.
Equal Opportunity
- 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
