Harvey
Software Engineer, Database Infra
$191K–$325K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Mar 20, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering. No alternative stated.
About the job
Leads the strategy, reliability, scaling, and tooling for Harvey’s global PostgreSQL database fleet supporting its legal AI platform.
What you'll do
- Set migration governance standards and build review workflows, CI checks, rollback procedures, and deployment sequencing.
- Guide multi-region database architecture and scaling; own reliability, performance, observability, and incident response.
- Build self-service database tooling and developer guardrails, and drive systemic improvements after incidents.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering, with PostgreSQL as the primary database and demonstrated staff-level scope.
- Expert PostgreSQL knowledge, including WAL mechanics, vacuum tuning, replication, partitioning, and production debugging.
- Experience building migration governance systems and architecting multi-region, high-availability database infrastructure.
- Experience leading production database major-version upgrades or sharding initiatives with zero downtime.
Nice to have
- Strong software engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar); exposure to vector databases, embedding storage, Redis, Elasticsearch, or Kafka.
- Experience building or leading a database engineering function from scratch.
Pay
$190,720 - $325,000 (USD; salary type not stated)
Tools
PostgreSQL, Datadog, pganalyze, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, Terraform, Pulumi
AI focus
Database infrastructure for Harvey’s legal AI platform; bonus exposure to vector databases, embedding storage, or adjacent systems for AI/ML workloads.
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