Role overviewYou'll be a dedicated recruiting partner for Harvey's Infrastructure and Platform organization, covering Core Infrastructure, Model Infrastructure, Database Infrastructure, Backend Platform. This is a full-cycle role where you'll own the process from market mapping and sourcing through closing, working with engineering leaders to hire engineers and managers from Mid-level to Staff.
What you'll do- Partner with Infra and Platform leaders to turn roadmap priorities into a clear hiring plan: which roles, which profiles, in what order
- Build and maintain pipelines across infra specialties: distributed systems, cloud (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, databases/Postgres, SRE and reliability, ML/model serving, and security
- Map talent at the companies that have solved infra at scale (hyperscalers, AI labs, and high-growth infra and data companies) and run targeted outreach to passive senior and Staff+ engineers
- Advise hiring managers on the infra talent market, including comp, competing offers, level calibration, and what these candidates look for in their next role
- Run a high-signal, candidate-first process for technical loops (system design, deep dives, on-call and reliability scenarios), and keep interviewers calibrated and moving quickly
- Close competitive candidates by telling a clear story about Harvey's infra problems, their scope, and why they matter
- Keep Ashby clean and use pipeline data (conversion, time in stage, source quality) to change course when something isn't working
- Improve how we hire infra talent: interview plans, sourcing playbooks, referral programs, and events
What you have- 3-5 years of full-cycle technical recruiting, including meaningful time hiring infrastructure, platform, SRE, or platform engineers
- Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up where speed and quality both mattered
- A track record of hiring senior and Staff-level engineers, including passive candidates you sourced yourself
- Enough technical fluency to have credible conversations about infra work: you can tell a platform engineer from an SRE, and a database specialist from a distributed systems generalist, and you can pitch each one's problems at Harvey
- Strong relationships with hiring managers, who treat you as a partner rather than an order-taker
- Comfort with data. You use metrics to diagnose problems and influence decisions
- You follow the infra and AI talent market: which companies are growing, which are shrinking, and where top engineers want to go next
- Low ego and high ownership. You'll roll up your sleeves to get the team built
- Nice to have: experience recruiting for AI/ML infrastructure or model serving teams, security or compliance-heavy environments, or distributed engineering teams across multiple locations.
Compensation Range130,000- 150,000 USD
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