Harvey
Head of Security Engineering
New York
Sponsorship not specified$285k-$350kDetected 27 days ago
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringAgentic AICybersecurityLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Security at Harvey is not a gatekeeper function-it's an engineering discipline that enables our company to move faster with confidence.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, or security engineering experience, with significant leadership experience managing managers and senior engineers.
- Experience leading security engineering organizations in high-growth technology companies.
- Demonstrated ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Experience partnering with executive leadership and influencing company-wide technical strategy.
Skills
- 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.
Compensation
- $285,000 - $ 350,000 USD
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
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Benefits
- Drive automation-first approaches to security controls, reducing operational burden while increasing coverage and effectiveness.
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