资深软件工程师, 数据库
Staff Software Engineer, Databases
为什么选择Harvey
在Harvey，我们正在改变法律和专业服务的运作方式。通过结合前沿的代理AI、企业级平台和深厚的专业知识，我们正在重塑未来数十年关键知识工作的完成方式。
这是一个难得的机会，帮助打造一家具有代际影响力的公司，在真正的转折点上共同成长。我们拥有强大的产品市场匹配度和世界级的投资支持。我们正在快速扩展，并实时定义一个全新的类别。这项工作充满雄心，标准很高，个人、职业和财务上的成长机会无与伦比。
我们的团队行动迅速，承担责任，并对使命有深刻承诺——以高强度运营，贴近客户，互相推动追求卓越。我们秉持三个价值观：果断、简洁、工作未完成。我们基于清晰判断而非完美信息快速行动，我们相信简洁才是可扩展的关键，我们从不满足于现状。如果你希望与志同道合的人一起完成职业生涯中最出色的工作，我们期待与你携手共创。
在Harvey，专业服务的未来正在今天被书写——而我们才刚刚开始。
职位概览
作为Harvey工程团队的资深数据库工程师，你将定义我们的数据库基础设施如何在我们的法律AI平台上运行和演进。Harvey在全球范围内运行着多个区域和可用区的PostgreSQL数据库集群。你将负责该数据库集群的技术战略——制定迁移治理标准，推动多区域扩展的架构决策，并建立保持数据层可靠性的操作实践，随着我们的增长不断优化。
这是一个需要深入参与的领导角色。你将直接与高级和资深工程师合作，参与基础设施路线图的决策，同时也要是那个能在凌晨2点诊断出复制延迟激增问题的人。你将构建迁移评审框架，定义工具策略，并提升整个工程团队对数据库安全性和性能的认知标准。
该职位位于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山。我们采用面对面的工作模式，并为新员工提供搬迁协助。
你将负责
- 迁移治理 – 全权负责迁移治理框架的端到端管理—设计评审流程、CI门禁检查、自动化回滚程序以及全集群部署顺序，确保安全的迁移流程
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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.
ROLE OVERVIEW
As a Staff Database Engineer on the Engineering team at Harvey, you will define how our database infrastructure operates and evolves across our legal AI platform. Harvey runs a global fleet of PostgreSQL databases spanning multiple regions and availability zones. You’ll own the technical strategy for this fleet—setting the standards for migration governance, driving architecture decisions for multi-region scaling, and establishing the operational practices that keep our data layer reliable as we grow.
This is a leadership role with deep hands-on expectations. You’ll partner directly with Principal and Staff Engineers on infrastructure roadmap decisions while also being the person who can diagnose a replication lag spike at 2am. You’ll build the migration review framework, define the tooling strategy, and raise the bar for how the entire engineering organization thinks about database safety and performance.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Migration Governance – Own the migration governance framework end-to-end—design the review workflow, CI gate checks, automated rollback procedures, and fleet-wide deployment sequencing that makes safe migrations the default across the org
- Architecture & Scaling – Drive the technical strategy for Harvey’s global database fleet—multi-region replication design, capacity planning, sharding and partitioning approaches, and fleet-wide observability as we scale into new markets
- Reliability & Performance – Own database reliability and performance at the fleet level—monitoring replication health, optimizing query performance, tuning vacuum and connection management, and building the alerting that gives us confidence across all production environments
- Platform & Tooling – Build self-service tooling and developer guardrails—migration dry-runs, schema diff previews, automated health checks, performance regression detection—so engineering teams can move fast without bottlenecking on a single DBA
- Incident Leadership – Lead database incident response and drive systemic improvements—triage production issues, run post-incident reviews, and turn lessons learned into durable process and tooling fixes
Even Better If You Can:
- Security & Compliance – Partner with Security and Compliance to design and enforce data-layer controls for SOC 2, GDPR, and data residency requirements—access controls, audit logging, encryption standards, and data lifecycle policies
- Strategic Partnership – Represent database engineering in vendor evaluations, build-vs-buy decisions, and technology strategy discussions with engineering leadership
- Team Building – Shape the database engineering function at Harvey—define the operating model, set the hiring bar, mentor engineers on database best practices, and build the culture where teams proactively think about data safety
WHAT YOU HAVE
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL as your primary database, with demonstrated staff-level scope—you’ve set standards across teams, not just operated within one
- Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge (required)—WAL mechanics, vacuum tuning, logical and physical replication, partitioning strategies, and the ability to debug production issues others can’t. PostgreSQL is our core database and deep fluency is non-negotiable
- Track record of building migration governance systems—not just reviewing migrations, but designing the frameworks, tooling, and organizational processes that make safe migrations the default
- Experience architecting database infrastructure for multi-region, high-availability environments—replication topologies, failover automation, and data consistency trade-offs at fleet scale
- Deep fluency with database observability—you’ve built monitoring strategies using Datadog, pganalyze, or custom instrumentation, and you know which metrics actually predict incidents
- Experience leading database major version upgrades (e.g., PostgreSQL 14 → 16) or sharding initiatives in production with zero downtime
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority—you’ve written RFCs, set standards, and changed how an engineering organization thinks about database operations
- Proficiency with cloud database services at scale (Azure Database for PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL, or AWS RDS/Aurora) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Clear communication across audiences—you can present a database architecture decision to the VP of Engineering and explain a migration risk to a junior developer with equal clarity
Bonus
- Strong software engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar)—you build production-grade tooling and automation, not one-off scripts
- Exposure to vector databases, embedding storage, or adjacent systems (Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka) relevant to AI/ML workloads in regulated industries
- Background building or leading a database engineering function from scratch — defining the team charter, hiring, and operating model
COMPENSATION
$190,720 - $325,000
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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai