Principal Systems Generalist – Distributed Systems & Databases is a senior technical position responsible for solving foundational challenges across distributed systems, production databases, orchestration, and observability. The focus of this role is to ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant under real-world workloads.
This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems engineering, production-grade database operations, and systems programming using Rust. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across the stack from low-level systems internals to orchestration and observability tooling and will act as a cross-functional problem solver across infrastructure teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend systems in Rust to manage and allocate GPUs across compute clusters.
- Scale and optimize high-performance SQL and NoSQL databases for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
- Build and maintain resilient recovery and failover mechanisms to ensure availability during outages and cluster-level failures.
- Develop observability tooling, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, for diagnosing issues in distributed environments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and networking teams to design and operate a unified and reliable systems platform.
- Lead or contribute to architectural reviews, incident response, and reliability engineering efforts.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience building and operating distributed systems at production scale.
- Proficiency in Rust for systems and backend programming.
- Strong understanding of SQL
- Demonstrated ability to build tooling and automation for system health, monitoring, and recovery.
- Comfortable navigating and debugging complex interactions between kernel, databases, and orchestration layers.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of distributed consensus protocols (e.g., Raft, Paxos) and database internals.
- Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Exposure to GPU scheduling or high-performance computing (HPC) environments (optional).
- Familiarity with service-level objectives (SLOs), chaos engineering, and incident management workflows.
- Experience with Linux systems internals and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
Lead Scientific Data Architect
Hybrid – 4-5 days onsite in Greater Boston Area
Note: Visa sponsorship is not currently offered
Lawrence Harvey is partnering with a fast-scaling innovator at the intersection of Scientific Data and AI, working with some of the world’s most influential cloud and biopharma players. This organization is setting the industry standard for how scientific R&D data is structured, modeled, and activated for AI use cases across drug discovery, preclinical development, and manufacturing quality.
We're looking for a Scientific Data Architect to help design and implement extensible, AI-native data solutions for life sciences customers. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in life sciences (e.g., drug discovery, CMC, preclinical) and hands-on experience building production-grade data models, pipelines, and applications.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a customer-facing technical lead, working directly with R&D teams to understand scientific workflows and translate them into scalable, cloud-based data solutions
- Architect and implement robust data models (tabular & JSON), integrating ELNs, LIMS, and lab instrumentation
- Build Python-based applications and parsers to support data processing, visualization, and integration with ML/AI models
- Collaborate closely with scientists, business analysts, and AI engineers to accelerate data activation
- Rapidly iterate on prototypes and present solutions through live demos and stakeholder meetings
Qualifications
- PhD with 7+ years or Master’s with 10+ years of industry experience in life sciences domains (drug discovery, quality, CMC, etc.)
- Strong technical fluency in Python, scientific data modeling, APIs, and cloud data infrastructure
- Prior experience building data pipelines and apps used by scientists and R&D teams
- Comfortable in dynamic, fast-paced environments with a high degree of ownership
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally with science, engineering, and business teams
Lead Product Manager, Identity & Account Security
Location: San Jose
We are partnering with a global technology company serving billions of users worldwide to identify a Lead Product Manager to drive the next generation of account security and identity protection. This role will own strategy and execution for critical authentication, anti-fraud, and abuse prevention capabilities at massive consumer scale.
In this role, you will shape the product vision for how hundreds of millions of users securely authenticate, recover accounts, and stay protected from evolving threats, all while maintaining a seamless user experience. You’ll work at the intersection of security, identity, AI/ML, and user trust, collaborating with top engineering and research talent to define the future of safe digital identity.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role for a product leader who can combine deep security expertise with strong product instincts and thrive in complex, fast-moving environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the multi-year product vision and roadmap for authentication, account protection, and anti-abuse capabilities at global scale.
- Lead strategy for next-generation identity systems, including risk-based authentication, account takeover prevention, and access management.
- Partner with engineering, trust & safety, risk, legal, and compliance teams to deliver secure and privacy-respecting products that meet global regulatory standards.
- Use data, threat intelligence, and user research to anticipate and neutralize emerging account security threats.
- Drive end-to-end product execution — from strategy and requirements definition to launch, adoption, and iteration.
- Represent the account security product strategy to senior leadership, influencing cross-org priorities and investments.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent in identity, authentication, fraud prevention, or account security.
- Proven track record of shipping large-scale security or identity products in a consumer or enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of modern authentication standards (OAuth, OIDC, SAML), risk-based authentication, MFA, and identity federation.
- Experience balancing user experience and security while aligning with global regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, KYC/AML).
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders in high-stakes security contexts.
- Excellent strategic thinking, structured problem-solving, and communication skills.
Clean Energy Tech Organization – Senior Backend Engineer (Full-Time, Remote – U.S. Only)
Join a market leader in sustainability and carbon accounting technology, helping global enterprises track and reduce their carbon footprint across supply chains. This fast-growing, well-funded company is expanding its engineering team and hiring two Senior Backend Engineers to help scale its suite of SaaS applications.
You’ll be part of a high-performing team of 10 engineers (plus external support) building and maintaining external-facing APIs that integrate customer data into a digital sustainability platform. The role involves designing secure, scalable, and reliable backend systems while collaborating across teams tomodernize backend services and shape the company’s API gateway strategy.
Key Skills & Experience:
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Golang – two of the company’s main products
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Python – one major product
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.NET / C# – one major product
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Kafka (or similar) – event streaming and messaging
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SQL – strong database and query optimization skills
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REST API design and integration
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Experience working in SaaS environments and distributed systems preferred
Role Details:
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Type: Full-time, direct hire (no C2C)
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Location: 100% Remote (U.S. only)
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Eligibility: U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders only (no sponsorship available)
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Start: ASAP
If this sounds like a fit, please submit your resume and contact information to arrange a brief 10–15-minute introductory call.
Project Manager / Business Analyst – Regulatory Operations IT
Location: Metropark, NJ | Alternate: Midtown NYC (Hybrid – 2x per week)
We're looking for a Project Manager/Business Analyst to join a top banking client of ours. This is a VP-level role that blends project management, business analysis, and product knowledge across derivatives and regulatory reporting. You’ll work directly with stakeholders to deliver solutions that drive compliance and reporting of OTC Derivatives accuracy across multiple asset classes.
What You’ll Do
- Lead projects delivering solutions for OTC Derivatives regulatory reporting (Rates, FX, Credit, Equities, Commodities).
- Map and analyze trade lifecycle data across systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Partner with business, operations, and technology teams to identify and document gaps in procedures.
- Manage risks, testing, and delivery timelines in an Agile environment.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience as a PM/BA within financial services.
- Strong OTC derivatives lifecycle knowledge (swaps, options)
- Emphasis on regulatory reporting and compliance frameworks.
- Hands-on technical skills: Jira, XML structures, SQL (nice-to-have).
This is your opportunity to join a globally recognized investment bank and influence scalable solutions are developed. If this seems like a next step in your career of middle-office reporting or work you're already doing. We'd be delighted to hear from you.
Technical Lead – Embedded Software (Aerospace | Onsite in Santa Barbara, CA
We're working with a client building cutting-edge systems at the intersection of hardware, autonomy, and embedded software, and they’re looking for a Technical Lead to drive embedded development for aerospace-grade systems.
This is a hands-on role engineering combined with technical team leadership. Ideal for someone who’s led embedded projects, and is ready to help shape team direction and growth in an industry defining team.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the design and development of real-time embedded software for flight-critical systems
- Manage and mentor a small team of engineers — guiding architecture, code quality, and development processes
- Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, systems, and test teams to integrate software into the full product stack
- Take full lifecycle ownership — from prototyping to deployment and operational readiness
What They’re Looking For:
- Strong experience in embedded systems (Rust OR C, C++), ideally but not required, in aerospace or high-reliability domains
- Deep understanding of real-time systems, concurrency, SoC Architectures & Bare-Metal environments.
- Proven experience in people management .
- Comfortable working onsite in Santa Barbara, CA. In-person collaboration is essential
- Must be ITAR compliant — U.S. citizens, green card holders, or individuals with refugee/asylee status only
Why This Role Stands Out:
- Work on systems with real-world aerospace applications
- Blend technical leadership with meaningful engineering work
- Shape both the stack and the team during a critical early phase
- Join a mission-driven team pushing the boundaries of embedded performance and reliability
If this aligns with your previous experience and you're interested into taking a step into a unique hands-on management approach to creating solutions that actually fly. We'd be thrilled to talk.


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