# Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, Go, Datadog, Sentry, Pagerduty
**Posted:** 2026-01-23

> Designs, builds, and scales core infrastructure for Harvey's AI platform, focusing on multi-cloud systems (Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, and observability. Requires 4+ years in infrastructure engineering with strong IaC and distributed systems expertise.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that power Harvey's AI platform across multiple cloud regions
- Own and evolve our multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes orchestration, networking, and container management
- Lead technical initiatives around observability, incident response, and operational excellence
- Architect and optimize our distributed systems for reliability, including load balancing, quota management, and failover mechanisms
- Partner with Product Engineering and Security teams to ensure infrastructure accelerates product development
- Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like **Terraform** and **Pulumi**
- Mentor junior engineers and raise the technical bar through code reviews, design reviews, and technical leadership

## What You Have
- 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or Platform Engineering in a production environment
- Long track record building and scaling complex, large-scale distributed systems
- Deep proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (**Azure** preferred; **GCP** or **AWS** experience transfers well)
- Strong fluency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools — **Terraform**, **Pulumi**, or **CloudFormation**
- Solid understanding of **Kubernetes**, container orchestration, networking, and cloud security at scale
- Experience with observability tools (**Datadog**, **Sentry**) and incident response practices (**PagerDuty**, Incident.io)
- Strong programming skills in **Python**, **Go**, or similar languages

## Nice to Have
- Experience building infrastructure for AI/ML workloads or high-throughput inference systems
- Background with distributed rate limiting, load balancing, or quota management systems
- Experience operating multi-tenant platforms with strict security and compliance requirements
- Track record of leading complex cross-functional projects

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