Harvey
Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM
$231K–$340K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
About the job
Defines Harvey’s identity and access strategy and builds production systems for customer, workforce, and AI-agent authentication, authorization, and access management.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy for identity, authentication, authorization, and privileged access; guide architecture and roadmaps.
- Design, build, instrument, and operate identity systems, and lead cross-functional access initiatives.
- Extend identity systems to AI agents so they are authenticated, appropriately scoped, and auditable.
What they ask for
- 10+ years experience building and operating production software, with demonstrated impact across multiple teams or technical domains.
- Deep expertise in several identity and access domains, such as authentication, federation, authorization, entitlement modeling, or privileged access.
- Experience designing identity or authorization platforms, libraries, or abstractions used by other engineering teams.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern distributed-system patterns; AI fluency and strong stakeholder communication are also required.
Nice to have
- Experience with SCIM, OIDC, SAML, OPA or Cedar, Zanzibar-style authorization systems, or hardware-backed credentials.
- Experience with IGA or PAM platforms, joiner/mover/leaver workflow automation, hyper-growth startups, or regulated environments such as FedRAMP.
Pay
$231,000 - $340,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, SCIM, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Open Policy Agent (OPA), Cedar
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development tools and design agentic workflows that reduce repetitive toil; build identity systems that authenticate, scope, and audit AI agents, and explore AI-powered access management.
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