Head of Security Engineering

Harvey

Director of Security Engineering at Harvey defining and executing foundational security strategies. Building security capabilities to support rapid growth and customer trust in a collaborative environment.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $285,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and execute the 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, with 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

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Hard Skills & Tools

security engineeringidentity managementaccess managementauthentication systemsauthorization systemscloud infrastructuredistributed systemsapplication architecturesecurity toolingautomation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationstrategic thinkingcollaborationinfluencingproblem-solvingteam buildingpragmatic decision-makingorganizational skills