Head of Security Engineering

Harvey

Director of Security Engineering to build and scale security foundations at Harvey. Leading a team to manage identity and access, security tooling, and secure product development.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $285,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and execute strategy for Harvey's foundational security platform
Lead and grow a team of security and software engineers responsible for Harvey's security engineering capabilities
Own Harvey's Identity and Access Management strategy across workforce, infrastructure, and production environments
Build scalable authorization, authentication, access governance, secrets management, and privileged access systems
Develop the security tooling ecosystem that empowers engineering teams to identify, remediate, and prevent security issues efficiently
Partner closely with Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Product Security, and Compliance teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle
Drive automation-first approaches to security controls, reducing operational burden while increasing coverage and effectiveness
Establish long-term technical architecture and roadmaps for foundational security services
Build security capabilities that support Harvey's rapid growth, enterprise customer requirements, and evolving regulatory landscape
Recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering managers and senior individual contributors

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering, infrastructure, or security engineering experience
Significant leadership experience managing managers and senior engineers
Experience building and operating large-scale identity, authentication, authorization, or access management systems
Strong software engineering background with a track record of building production-grade platforms and developer-facing infrastructure
Experience leading security engineering organizations in high-growth technology companies
Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and modern application architectures
Demonstrated ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions
Experience partnering with executive leadership and influencing company-wide technical strategy
Excellent communication skills and a bias toward pragmatic, business-aligned security decisions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
Flexible PTO
Participation in equity plan and benefits program

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Hard Skills & Tools

security engineeringidentity managementaccess managementauthentication systemsauthorization systemscloud infrastructuredistributed systemsapplication architecturesecurity toolingautomation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic influenceteam buildingproblem-solvingcollaborationpragmatic decision-makingorganizational skillstechnical strategy