Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security has become a product feature in modern SaaS, particularly for platforms handling sensitive enterprise workflows and data. This Staff Software Engineer role in Product Security stands out because it sits at the intersection of core application architecture and customer trust, with scope spanning authentication, access control, and secure-by-default developer tooling. For SaaS companies operating at scale across many customers and geographies, these are the areas where security decisions compound quickly.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers durable leverage: building repeatable security standards that can be embedded into the software development lifecycle, influencing how multiple engineering teams ship, and translating technical risk into priorities that align with product delivery. Experience shaping security posture across an organization tends to transfer well across SaaS environments, especially where compliance expectations and customer security reviews are part of go-to-market.
This position is best suited to senior security-minded engineers who prefer hands-on code ownership alongside cross-functional leadership. It will fit professionals who enjoy setting practical guardrails, partnering with product and platform teams, and mentoring others through design and code review rather than operating solely as an advisory function.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Why Harvey
At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate — not incrementally, but end-to-end. 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. With 1000+ customers in 60+ countries, 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 is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to the mission. We move fast, operate with intensity, and take real ownership of the problems we tackle — from early thinking to long-term outcomes. We stay close to our customers — from leadership to engineers — and work together to solve real problems with urgency and care. If you thrive in ambiguity, push for excellence, and want to help shape the future of work alongside others who raise the bar, we invite you to build with us.
At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Product Security team at Harvey, you'll play a critical role in shaping how security is built into our AI platform from the ground up. We store and process our customers’ most sensitive data, and as a result, security is paramount at every stage of our product lifecycle. You'll take ownership of securing critical parts of the product while driving high-leverage security initiatives that raise the bar for the entire engineering org — balancing hands-on technical work with cross-functional leadership and mentorship. This is a rare opportunity to define and build a product security program at a company scaling fast.
Our security program is driven by our collective offensive security experience: breaking into systems at other companies (in white-hat capacities), responding to real security incidents, and learning from other companies’ data breaches. We regularly conduct penetration tests and red team exercises with external security firms. At the same time, we are all software engineers - contributing code daily and approaching security with an engineering-first mindset.
What You'll Do
Define and own the product security roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on risk, business impact, and engineering org maturity.
Establish and evolve security posture across the engineering organization, setting standards that scale with the company
Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to incorporate secure design principles at every stage of development
Own and review security-critical code across key parts of the product, including authentication and access control
Architect secure-by-default libraries and tools that make the secure path the easiest choice for developers
Drive mitigation strategies during security-related incident responses, coordinating cross-functional efforts
Mentor engineers and raise the security bar across teams through code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance
What You Have
8+ years of experience in product security, application security, offensive security, and/or security-focused software engineering
Long track record of identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities, demonstrated through CVEs, bug bounty awards, published research, or prior work experience
Track record of leading complex cross-functional security initiatives and delivering measurable improvements, with demonstrated ability to influence engineering teams without direct authority.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing security talent within an engineering organization
Strong programming skills with demonstrated experience writing high-quality, production software
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, particularly when translating security risks into business terms for non-security stakeholders
Nice to Have
Experience building security programs or practices at hyper-growth startups
Background with cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS) and cloud-native security patterns
Experience with AI/ML systems and emerging security considerations for LLM-based applications
Compensation
$220,000 - $330,000
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Harvey is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing accommodations@harvey.ai
