Job Overview
Location
San Francisco
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data Engineer
Date Posted
March 23, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • As a Staff Database Administrator at Harvey AI Inc., you will define and evolve the database infrastructure strategy for a global legal AI platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across a multi-region PostgreSQL fleet that supports 1000+ customers in 58+ countries.
- • You will own end-to-end migration governance, drive architecture decisions for high-availability systems, lead incident response, and build self-service tooling that empowers engineering teams to move fast without compromising data safety or compliance.
- • You’ll partner with Principal and Staff Engineers on infrastructure roadmap while maintaining deep hands-on expertise—diagnosing replication lag at 2am, tuning vacuum and connection settings, and setting organizational standards for database operations.
- • Harvey’s engineering team operates with intensity, ownership, and customer obsession in San Francisco, using an in-person work model to solve complex problems in AI-driven professional services at a true inflection point of growth.
- • In this role, you will shape the database engineering function from the ground up—defining hiring standards, mentoring engineers, establishing operational models, and influencing technical direction across teams through RFCs, standards, and strategic partnerships with security, compliance, and leadership.
- • You will gain unparalleled experience scaling a mission-critical data layer in a high-growth AI company, mastering advanced PostgreSQL internals, multi-region replication, zero-downtime upgrades, and compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and GDPR—while building systems that become the default for safe, fast database evolution across the organization.
🎯 Requirements
- • 10+ years of hands-on experience in database administration, reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering with PostgreSQL as the primary database, including staff-level impact such as setting cross-team standards and driving organizational change.
- • Expert-level PostgreSQL knowledge, including WAL mechanics, vacuum tuning, logical/physical replication, partitioning strategies, and the ability to debug complex production issues that others cannot resolve.
- • Proven track record designing and implementing migration governance frameworks—including CI gate checks, automated rollbacks, dry-runs, schema diff previews, and fleet-wide deployment sequencing that make safe migrations the default.
- • Experience architecting and operating database infrastructure for multi-region, high-availability environments, including replication topologies, failover automation, and data consistency trade-offs at fleet scale.
- • Proficiency with cloud database services (AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi, combined with deep observability expertise using Datadog, pganalyze, or custom instrumentation.
- • Strong communication skills, enabling clear technical dialogue with both senior engineering leaders (e.g., VP of Engineering) and junior developers on topics ranging from architecture decisions to migration risks.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation range of $190,720 to $286,080 annually, reflecting the seniority and impact of the role.
- • Relocation assistance provided for new employees joining the San Francisco-based, in-person team.
- • Opportunity to work on a transformative AI platform serving 1000+ customers across 58+ countries, with strong product-market fit and backing from world-class investors.
- • Exposure to cutting-edge challenges in scaling PostgreSQL for AI/ML workloads, including potential work with vector databases, embeddings, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Kafka in regulated industries.
- • Clear path to influence and shape the database engineering function at Harvey—defining team charter, hiring standards, operating model, and culture of data safety and ownership.
- • Access to a high-performance, mission-driven team that values urgency, excellence, and real-world impact in solving complex problems in professional services.
Skills & Technologies
Python
PostgreSQL
Redis
Elasticsearch
AWS
Senior
Onsite
$190k-286k
About Harvey AI Inc.
Harvey AI Inc. provides a generative artificial-intelligence platform engineered specifically for the legal profession. The software integrates with law-firm workflows to automate contract drafting, review, due-diligence and regulatory research, producing lawyer-quality language grounded in up-to-date statutes and precedents. Harvey combines large language models trained on legal corpora with secure, private-cloud deployment and firm-specific fine-tuning to maintain confidentiality and compliance. Clients range from global law firms to in-house legal departments seeking efficiency gains without compromising accuracy or security. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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