Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM

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. We have 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.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Security Engineering team you will be a founding member of the team and define and drive the technical strategy for identity and access at Harvey both how customers authenticate to Harvey as well as how internal employees contractors and non-human identities access company systems what they are authorized to do and how seamlessly access adapts as needs change.

Challenges ahead include exploring how AI-powered access management can understand employee needs recommend appropriate permissions streamline decisions and adapt access as roles and responsibilities evolve as well as shaping an end user/agent authentication experience that makes signing in to Harvey fast consistent reliable and secure across every surface where our customers work.

You will operate at the boundary of security infrastructure and product engineering turning ambitious business and technical requirements into durable identity platforms clear architectural direction and exceptional user experiences. This role is hands-on but its primary leverage comes through technical direction platform adoption cross-functional alignment and enabling other engineers to build on strong identity foundations.

• Define Harveys multi-year technical strategy for identity authentication authorization and privileged access.

• Design and build complex identity systems from greenfield writing the code instrumenting it and owning it in production.

• Lead the architecture and execution of cross-functional initiatives to right-size access at scale spanning identity and authentication permissions and authorization entitlement modeling and access controls.

• Extend the identity model to non-human and agentic identities so that AI agents acting on behalf of users are authenticated scoped and auditable.

• Serve as the technical authority for identity and access architecture and guide major design reviews investment decisions and long-term roadmaps.

• 10 years experience building and operating production software with demonstrated impact across multiple teams or technical domains.

• Deep expertise in several identity and access engineering domains authentication federation authorization entitlement modeling or privileged access.

• Fluency with AI: you use AI-assisted development tools effectively while applying strong engineering judgment and you design agentic workflows that automate repetitive toil and improve how teams operate.

• Experience designing identity or authorization platforms libraries or abstractions used by other engineering teams.

• Experience delivering foundational systems that achieve meaningful adoption and improve organizational or customer outcomes.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services and modern distributed-system patterns.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to create alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience with System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) OpenID Connect (OIDC) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) policy engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or Cedar Zanzibar-style authorization systems or hardware-backed credentials.

• Experience with identity governance and administration (IGA) or privileged access management (PAM) platforms and with automating joiner mover and leaver workflows.

• Experience building identity platforms or programs at a hyper-growth startup.

• Experience with regulated environments such as FedRAMP including phishing-resistant authentication and authenticator assurance requirements.

Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition or any other basis protected by law.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities and requests can be made by emailing

Required Experience:

Staff IC