Software Engineer, Data Platform

WHY HARVEY

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re 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. We’re 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 Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you. At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Harvey is generating far more data than we currently know how to use well. Product telemetry, agent execution traces, model usage, customer engagement, financial and operational systems — the volume and the number of teams who need to work with it are both growing faster than any single team can serve by hand. As one of the first hires on our central data platform team, you'll build the systems that let every team at Harvey work with data confidently and independently.

This is a platform charter, not a pipeline queue: you're building the frameworks, tooling, and paved paths that product engineers, data engineers, and analysts all build on, and you're measured by their leverage and general trust in our data systems. The near‑term foundation is ingestion and the warehouse — reliable streaming and batch paths into Snowflake, CDC off production systems, orchestration, and schema evolution that absorbs upstream change instead of breaking under it, and factors in the hard data sensitivity requirements our domain requires.

From there the charter expands to the rest of what a modern data platform owes its users: transformation and compute frameworks, self‑serve tooling so teams can stand up their own pipelines against well‑tested primitives, real‑time and stream processing for products and internal systems that can't wait for a nightly batch, and the quality, lineage, and governance layers that make the whole thing trustworthy.

Handling PII correctly and honoring multi‑region data residency aren't nice to have features here — they're constraints the platform has to satisfy by construction, for customers who are among the most security‑conscious institutions in the world. You'll sit between Analytics, Data Engineering, product teams, and Infrastructure. Today this work is distributed and improvised. You'll make it a system, set the technical direction, and help build the team around you.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY

• Own the data platform's architecture and technical direction — treating data infrastructure as a software product built from reusable frameworks, and making deliberate build‑vs‑buy tradeoffs as the platform grows
• Build and operate the ingestion layer across streaming, batch, CDC, and third‑party connectors, including schema evolution that absorbs upstream change safely rather than silently breaking consumers, so onboarding a new source is a paved path instead of a project
• Land data into Snowflake with the freshness, completeness, and cost…