Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience (DevEx)
Remote • Bengaluru • FullTime
Posted 4mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
The Developer Experience team is crucial for maintaining Harvey's rapid growth by building the CI/CD systems, internal frameworks, and platform-level guardrails that enable all engineers to ship AI features quickly and safely. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will create systems to maximize the velocity and efficiency of every engineer at Harvey. You will work across the tech stack, collaborating with teams to instill reliability, automation, and simplicity into developer workflows. This role offers a unique opportunity to apply AI directly to developer productivity, shaping the future of software development within an AI-native company. If you are passionate about building foundational platforms that empower engineers to move fast with confidence, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
- Develop and scale a world-class developer platform to accelerate hyper growth, boosting velocity and stability through robust CI/CD systems, effective test frameworks, and reliable development environments.
- Build load testing and benchmarking infrastructure for evaluating and optimizing AI-native application performance.
- Pioneer the future of software development and site reliability engineering by integrating AI agents into the software development, deployment, and maintenance lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Backend Platform teams to embed testability, reliability, and observability into the platform.
- Gather feedback from engineering teams, evangelize best practices, and establish a streamlined development process for all engineers.
- Set the strategic direction and roadmap for scaling developer experience during company expansion.
- Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to uphold engineering excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building scalable backend systems or internal developer platforms.
- Proficiency in Python (or similar languages) and deep knowledge of backend development fundamentals and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, Github Actions), test frameworks, or load and performance testing.
- Hands-on experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform).
- A track record of producing high-quality, well-tested code and consistently following software development best practices.
- Proven technical leadership throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Experience mentoring engineers, guiding architectural decisions, and shaping culture.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for improving developer experience.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience integrating AI agents into a developer ecosystem is a strong plus.