Detection & Response Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA - USA
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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
Some of the worlds largest companies and their law firms use Harveys AI capabilities to deliver world-class client services at unprecedented scale and efficiency. Harvey allows high-performing professionals to gain deep domain knowledge faster understand the big picture and tackle more complex challenges in less time.
Our customers depend on us to deliver a secure trustworthy and compliant platform. Earning the trust of our customers is a business enabler and we value it more than anything else.
We are looking for an offensive security minded blue teamer to help us proactively identify and mitigate all threats against Harvey. Your offensive security expertise will be key in prioritizing the right defenses modeling threats against our infrastructure and chasing down leads. You will have the opportunity to build your Software Engineering and System Design skills as youre working on our state of the art agentic threat detection platform built on ClickHouse.
As an early member of our Security Detection and Response team you will play a key role in shaping the foundation of our Detection and Response program. We are a small but effective team and have a high bar for our work.
Our security program at Harvey is driven by our collective offensive security experience: Breaking into systems at other companies (in white-hat capacities) responding to real security incidents and learning from other companies data breaches. We conduct regular pentests and red team exercises with external security firms. At the same time we are all software engineers contributing code daily and approaching security topics with an engineering-first approach.
What Youll Do
Build strong relationships with key employees across the organization
Use your offensive security expertise to develop plausible threat scenarios and identify opportunities for detection
Assess logs for gaps and implement additional logging as needed
Build out sophisticated data pipelines to handle increasing volumes of data and enrich our observability
Lead incident response as needed
Develop detection rules and a process for keeping them effective in collaboration with our other D&R Engineers
Participate in table-top and redteam exercises to evaluate efficacy
What You Have
Demonstrated ability to find weaknesses (e.g. privilege escalation) in real-world corporate networks cloud environments or applications
Hands-on experience responding to security incidents
Strong understanding of computer networks operating systems and cryptographic protocols
4 years of experience in Security Software Engineering Site Reliability Engineering or related disciplines
Nice to Have
Experience working at a small company smaller independent division of larger company or a hyper-growth startup
Experience with ClickHouse or similar data warehouses
Red team experience
Experience in incident commander role managing security incidents or other disasters
Compensation
$188000 - $282000
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About Company
Professional Class AI – Harvey is the platform built to meet the standards of the world’s leading professional service firms.