Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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Job Summary
Why Harvey
At Harvey were transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI an enterprise-grade platform and deep domain expertise were reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.
This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. With 1500 customers in 60 countries strong product-market fit and world-class investor support were scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious the bar is high and the opportunity for growth personal professional and financial is unmatched.
Our team moves fast takes ownership and is deeply committed to the mission operating with intensity staying close to our customers and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness Simplicity and Jobs Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information we believe simplicity is what scales and were never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive wed love to build with you.
At Harvey the future of professional services is being written today and were just getting started.
Role Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Harvey youll play a critical role in designing and building new infrastructure systems while equally scaling and strengthening our existing infrastructure. Our infrastructure is the foundation that powers every user interaction with Harvey processing billions of prompt tokens and millions of daily requests across our global legal AI platform.
Youll work in an environment balanced between innovation building new systems and operational excellence ensuring that Harvey remains resilient and efficient as it scales products regions customers and usage. Your contributions will directly impact the reliability scalability and security of our platform as we serve the worlds leading law firms and professional service providers.
This role is based in Bengaluru India.
What Youll Do
Design and build scalable fault-tolerant infrastructure systems that power Harveys 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 building systems that enable rapid detection and resolution of issues
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 our infrastructure is an accelerant not a constraint
Drive infrastructure-as-code practices using tools like Terraform and Pulumi to enable reproducible auditable deployments
Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization through code reviews design reviews and technical leadership
Representative Projects
Design and implement a next-generation model proxy architecture that routes millions of daily inference requests while maintaining model API compatibility and enabling seamless model integration
Build distributed rate limiting and quota management systems using Redis-backed algorithms to handle bursty traffic patterns without degrading user experience
Architect multi-region deployment strategies that meet strict data residency requirements for global enterprise customers
Develop comprehensive observability infrastructure with granular SLA monitoring burn rate alerts and detailed token attribution for cost tracking
Lead the evolution of our CI/CD pipelines to improve developer velocity while maintaining production stability
What You Have
6 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 )
Strong programming skills in Python Go or similar languages
Excellent problem-solving skills a spidey sense of where things could go wrong and a commitment to operational excellence
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 and delivering measurable impact
Additional Information
Work eligibility: Must be authorized to work in India. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
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Senior IC
About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.