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Staff Software Engineer, Databases

Why HarveyAt 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 decade

Company

Harvey

Location

San Francisco

Status

Open

Posted

2026-03-20T22:09:46.679+00:00

Harvey, which sells agentic AI for legal and professional services, is hiring a staff engineer to own its PostgreSQL fleet. The person sets migration governance, designs multi-region replication and partitioning, tunes query and vacuum performance, builds self-service tooling and guardrails, and leads database incident response. The posting asks for 10+ years with PostgreSQL as the primary database, staff-level scope, experience with major version upgrades or sharding at zero downtime, observability tools such as Datadog or pganalyze, and cloud database services plus Terraform or Pulumi. Based in San Francisco; relocation offered.