Technical Recruiter - Infrastructure
San Francisco · 3-5 years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About the role
- The Technical Recruiter for Infrastructure will serve as a dedicated recruiting partner for Harvey's Infrastructure and Platform organization.
- This full-cycle role involves owning the hiring process from market mapping and sourcing through closing for engineering roles ranging from mid-level to Staff.
- The recruiter will work closely with engineering leaders to build a top-tier infrastructure team capable of supporting global, secure, and scalable AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Infra and Platform leaders to turn roadmap priorities into a clear hiring plan.
- Build and maintain pipelines across infrastructure specialties including distributed systems, cloud, Kubernetes, databases, SRE, ML/model serving, and security.
- Map talent at companies that have solved infrastructure at scale and run targeted outreach to passive senior and Staff+ engineers.
- Advise hiring managers on the infrastructure talent market, including compensation, competing offers, and level calibration.
- Run a high-signal, candidate-first process for technical interview loops.
- Close competitive candidates by articulating Harvey's infrastructure challenges and scope.
- Maintain data integrity in Ashby and use pipeline metrics to optimize recruiting processes.
- Improve hiring infrastructure, including interview plans, sourcing playbooks, referral programs, and events.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience.
- Meaningful experience hiring infrastructure, platform, SRE, or platform engineers.
- Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.
- Track record of hiring senior and Staff-level engineers, including passive candidates.
- Technical fluency to conduct credible conversations about infrastructure work.
- Ability to build strong relationships with hiring managers as a strategic partner.
- Comfort using data and metrics to diagnose problems and influence decisions.
- Knowledge of the infrastructure and AI talent market landscape.
- Low ego and high ownership mindset.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience recruiting for AI/ML infrastructure or model serving teams.
- Experience recruiting for security or compliance-heavy environments.
- Experience recruiting for distributed engineering teams across multiple locations.
Skills
- Ashby
- AWS
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Postgres
- Distributed Systems
- SRE
- ML Infrastructure
- Model Serving
- Security
- Compliance
