Incident Handler

Harvey
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced security professionals who lead incident response and build security automation, operating in cloud-native environments with a focus on offensive security expertise. The role is ideal for those with a background in defining incident response processes in fast-growing organizations.

Best fit for

  • Experienced incident responders with offensive security backgrounds and cloud-native expertise
    — “most engineers come from red-team, pentesting, or incident-response backgrounds”
  • Individuals who can define long-term incident response standards and mentor engineers
    — “Mentor engineers and incident responders, build playbooks and operational standards”

Things to consider

  • The role requires leadership in shaping processes for a small, evolving security team
    — “we’re hiring an experienced Incident Response Handler to drive and ultimately lead incident response”
  • Candidates must be comfortable operating in a high-intensity, mission-driven environment
    — “Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in leading incident investigations across cloud infrastructure
    — “leading investigations across cloud infrastructure, identity systems”
  • Showcase your ability to build security automation and tooling in Python or Go
    — “Experience building security automation and tooling, with strong scripting or software engineering skills in Python, Go”
  • Emphasize your background in threat modeling and tabletop exercises for critical risks
    — “Contribute to Harvey’s Detection & Response roadmap, including metrics, SLAs, threat modeling”
  • Demonstrate your ability to communicate complex incident details to leadership
    — “Experience communicating incident status and risk to senior leadership”
  • Position yourself as an expert in attacker tactics and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
    — “Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK)”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Participated in security incidents
  • Led investigations across cloud infrastructure
  • Contributed to Detection & Response roadmap
Typical background
3+ years of experience in Incident Response or related security engineering disciplines

Skills & requirements

Required

Incident ResponseSecurity OperationsThreat DetectionCloud Infrastructure Security

Preferred

Red Team OperationsPentesting

Stack & domain

Incident ResponseSecurity OperationsThreat DetectionCloud InfrastructureIdentity SystemsProblem SolvingCommunicationLeadershipSecurityAILegal Services

About the role

Original posting from Harvey via Ashby

WHY HARVEY

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. 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. We have 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 moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Harvey’s products sit at the intersection of frontier AI, sensitive customer data, and critical business workflows. Our customers trust us to protect their information in an always-accelerating threat ecosystem, and security is how we foremost earn and keep our customers’ trust. We’re hiring an experienced Incident Response Handler to drive and ultimately lead incident response for security events. You will command incidents, coordinate containment, and enforce that real fixes are implemented, preventing recurrence. You’ll join a small, highly technical security team early in standing up a dedicated Detection & Response function, with real latitude to define how Harvey does incident response for years to come. Like the rest of Harvey’s security team, our program is built on offensive security experience - most engineers come from red-team, pentesting, or incident-response backgrounds, and we bring an attacker’s mindset to detection and response. This is an individual contributor role for someone who has operated in mature security organizations at leading technology companies and wants to help define incident response at one of the most important AI companies in the world.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build strong relationships with key employees across the organization
  • Participate in security incidents, leading investigations across cloud infrastructure, identity systems, corporate environments, and our AI platforms.
  • Use, maintain, and contribute to an internally developed agentic SOC, fine tuned to Harvey’s threat environment
  • Work cross functionally across technical and operational orgs, ensuring the right PRs ship and best policies are enforced
  • Contribute to Harvey’s Detection & Response roadmap, including metrics, SLAs, threat modeling, and tabletop exercises for our most critical business risks.
  • Work across teams to ensure incident follow ups are meaningfully closed
  • Mentor engineers and incident responders, build playbooks and operational standards, and raise the security bar across the company.

WHAT YOU HAVE

  • 3+ years of experience in Incident Response, Detection & Response, Security Operations, Threat Detection, or related security engineering disciplines.
  • Experience participating in investigations and response efforts for complex security incidents in cloud-native environments.
  • Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK and modern threat actor tradecraft).
  • Experience with one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), plus strong knowledge of operating systems, networking, and identity systems.
  • Experience building security automation and tooling, with strong scripting or software engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Experience communicating incident status and risk to senior leadership.

COMPENSATION

$133,600 - $200,400 USD

DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION, AN APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICE MAY APPLY TO YOU. YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR APPLICANT PRIVACY NOTICES HERE https://harveyai.notion.site/Harvey-Candidate-Privacy-Notices-319ac3fcdd7a803bb807d5094f249922?pvs=74.

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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

Source: Harvey careers (Ashby)

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