Head of Security Engineering

What You'll Do

As Director of Security Engineering, you will define and execute the strategy for Harvey's foundational security platform.

• Lead and grow a team of security and software engineers responsible for Harvey's security engineering capabilities.
• Own Harvey's Identity and Access Management strategy across workforce, infrastructure, and production environments.
• Build scalable authorization, authentication, access governance, secrets management, and privileged access systems.
• Develop the security tooling ecosystem that empowers engineering teams to identify, remediate, and prevent security issues efficiently.
• Partner closely with Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Product Security, and Compliance teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle.
• Drive automation-first approaches to security controls, reducing operational burden while increasing coverage and effectiveness.
• Establish long-term technical architecture and roadmaps for foundational security services.
• Build security capabilities that support Harvey's rapid growth, enterprise customer requirements, and evolving regulatory landscape.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering managers and senior individual contributors.

What You Have

• 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, or security engineering experience, with significant leadership experience managing managers and senior engineers.
• Experience building and operating large-scale identity, authentication, authorization, or access management systems.
• Strong software engineering background with a track record of building production-grade platforms and developer-facing infrastructure.
• Experience leading security engineering organizations in high-growth technology companies.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and modern application architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership and influencing company-wide technical strategy.
• Excellent communication skills and a bias toward pragmatic, business-aligned security decisions.

Particularly Exciting Backgrounds

We're especially interested in leaders who have:

• Built production IAM platforms at scale.
• Led platform security or security infrastructure organizations.
• Created security products and services used broadly by engineering teams.
• Scaled engineering organizations through periods of rapid company growth.
• Worked in cloud-native, developer-platform, or highly regulated enterprise environments.