5 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the migration governance framework, including review workflows, CI gate checks, automated rollback procedures, and fleet-wide deployment sequencing.
- Drive database architecture and scaling strategy across multi-region replication, capacity planning, sharding, partitioning, and observability.
- Own fleet-level database reliability and performance through replication monitoring, query optimization, vacuum and connection tuning, and alerting.
- Build self-service migration and database tooling, including dry runs, schema-diff previews, health checks, and performance-regression detection.
- Lead database incident response, post-incident reviews, and systemic reliability improvements.
- Partner with Security and Compliance on SOC 2, GDPR, data residency, access controls, audit logging, encryption, and data lifecycle policies.
- Represent database engineering in vendor evaluations, build-versus-buy decisions, and technology strategy discussions.
- Shape the database engineering function by defining its operating model, setting the hiring bar, mentoring engineers, and establishing database best practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, database reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL as the primary database.
- Demonstrated staff-level scope, including setting standards across teams.
- Expert PostgreSQL knowledge, including WAL mechanics, vacuum tuning, logical and physical replication, partitioning strategies, and production debugging.
- Experience building migration governance systems, including frameworks, tooling, and organizational processes.
- Experience architecting multi-region, highly available database infrastructure with replication topologies, failover automation, and data consistency trade-offs.
- Deep database observability experience using Datadog, pganalyze, or custom instrumentation.
- Experience leading production major-version upgrades or sharding initiatives with zero downtime.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority through RFCs and standards.
- Proficiency with Azure Database for PostgreSQL, GCP Cloud SQL, or AWS RDS/Aurora and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi.
- Clear communication across technical and organizational audiences.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or a similar language are a bonus.
- Exposure to vector databases, embedding storage, Redis, Elasticsearch, or Kafka is a bonus.
- Experience building or leading a database engineering function from scratch is a bonus.
Benefits
- In-person work model in San Francisco, California
- Relocation assistance for new employees
Tech Stack
About Harvey
Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. Adopted by Fortune 500 companies like AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Koch, KKR, Bridgewater, more than 100,000 lawyers across 2,400+ customers in 70 countries and over 75% of AmLaw 100 law firms rely on Harvey to advance legal expertise faster across contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation. Backed by Sequoia Capital, OpenAI, GV, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue and EQT, Harvey is the trusted partner in modernizing the legal industry.