Software Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)

What You’ll Do

• Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate Harvey's hyper growth. Boost velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments.
• Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure essential for evaluating and optimizing the performance of AI-native applications.
• Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents across the software development, deployment and maintenance lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability and observability into the platform, ensuring services built on our foundation are robust, easy to test and maintain.
• Work closely with engineering teams to gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and make the “paved road” a reality — empowering every Harvey engineer to move fast with confidence.

What You Have

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
• Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).
• A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code, consistently following software development best practices to ensure quality and reliability.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience — you enjoy creating tools or frameworks that make other engineers more productive.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and incorporate feedback.
• Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus.

Compensation Range

$175,000 - $250,000 USD