Branching Database Jobs in San Francisco, CA

About the Team: The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases.

Role Overview As a Staff Database Engineer on the Engineering team at Harvey, you will define how our database infrastructure

reliability and performance Build the database platform that lets Anthropic engineers ship without thinking about databases or scaling.

Motivated by delivering customer value and impact 5+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred) Optional: PhD in databases

Motivated by delivering customer value and impact 8+ years of experience working in a related system (preferred) Optional: PhD in databases

This means working on real-time collaborative editing, databases, public APIs, and high-volume event pipelines while helping define and evolve the core data model

What we look for: Proven track record building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems or database engines

If you've read a blog post about InfiniBand debugging or building a custom distributed database and thought "I want to do that" — this is that team.

Strong programming skills in a production backend language, plus experience with databases, indexing, and query performance.

What You’ll Own: Database Architecture & Scaling — Own database performance end-to-end: query optimization

That means distributed sync pipelines pulling data from dozens of sources, vector databases powering LLM search, and the orchestration layer that keeps it all running

Journeys: Architect multi-step, cross-channel programs across email, push and in-app, with event-based triggers, branching and suppression

Nodejs, AGgrid) Expert developing and maintaining production web services and data systems (we use Kubernetes and GCP) Expert working with SQL databases