# Head of Security Engineering
**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Salary:** $285K-$350K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Identity And Access Management, IAM, Authentication, Authorization, Access Governance, Secrets Management, Privileged Access Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Security Tooling, Security Automation
**Posted:** 2026-06-25
> Lead and scale the security engineering organization, owning IAM strategy, security tooling, and foundational security platforms that enable rapid, secure product development.
## Job Description
## 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.
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