# Software Engineer, Security

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $161k – $245k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Identity And Access Management, Authentication, Authorization, Secrets Management, Privileged Access Management, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Amazon Web Services, Distributed Systems, SCIM, Openid Connect, SAML, Open Policy Agent, Cedar, Zanzibar
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Build and operate foundational security services spanning identity, access, secrets, privileged access, and secure AI-agent infrastructure. The role requires at least two years of production software engineering experience, cloud expertise, and experience translating security requirements into reliable automated systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and operate core identity and access services across customer-facing products, workforce systems, and infrastructure, including authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets, and privileged access.
- Improve customer security configuration experiences, including identity, access, policies, and integrations, while maintaining secure defaults.
- Build identity controls, sandboxes, and safety harnesses that enable services and AI agents to operate with least privilege, constrained actions, auditability, and monitoring.
- Create secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, self-service tooling, and agentic workflows that automate security triage, remediation, and evidence collection.
- Design, productionize, and operate security systems with attention to trust boundaries, attacker paths, operational failure modes, reliability, and security.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for mission-critical security services.
- Contribute through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and technical collaboration.

## Requirements
- 2+ years of software engineering experience, including shipping and operating production services.
- Experience building or contributing to security infrastructure such as identity and access management, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access.
- Strong programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services.
- Familiarity with modern distributed-system patterns.
- Track record of translating security requirements into maintainable, automated systems.
- Experience using agentic coding tools and creating automated workflows, with the judgment to critically evaluate their output.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills, including explaining technical risks, decisions, and tradeoffs.
- Working knowledge of common vulnerability classes and attacker-oriented system failure analysis.

## Nice to Have
- Experience building security infrastructure at a fast-growing company.
- Experience with SCIM, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Cedar, or Zanzibar-style systems.
- Experience with hardware-backed credentials.
- Experience securing agentic or AI-powered systems that act on behalf of users against sensitive data.
- Experience in highly regulated enterprise environments.

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