Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building technology that helps users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it with confidence. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, and operate scalable cloud services while collaborating with diverse teams to deliver AI-powered legal data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services, delivering reliable systems at petabyte scale
- Build backend services and data pipelines to deliver customer impact
- Collaborate daily with a diverse group of teammates and product partners to solve problems, achieve team goals, and build AI-powered legal data solutions that operate at massive scale
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production environments as well as providing root cause analysis
- Influence reliability, security, and performance practices through example and feedback
- Provide technical direction and mentorship to your team, lead design and code reviews, raising engineering quality and maintainability
- Drive service ownership by leading reliability efforts, participating in on-call rotations, and guiding incident response, resolution, and root cause analysis
Skills
- This position requires the successful acquisition and maintenance of a Public Trust clearance. Candidates must be U.S. citizens to satisfy applicable clearance eligibility requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing, building and operating cloud-native systems
- Strong understanding of cloud-native development and distributed architectures
- Demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex solutions end to end, improving quality through thoughtful design discussions and thorough code reviews
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, observability, and incident response
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals replication strategies, partitioning, and CAP/PACELC trade-offs
- Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex issues like data skew, hot spots, clock skew, and split-brain scenarios
- Experience building systems at scale
- Familiarity with performance tuning and scalability trade-offs
- Experience in high-scale or regulated environments
- Familiarity with AI-development tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code
- Familiarity with storage engine internals — LSM trees, B-trees, compaction strategies, and write amplification
- Familiarity with FedRAMP compliance frameworks
Benefits
- Health and retirement programs
- Wellness resources
- Discretionary time off (DTO)
- Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
- Two annual company breaks
- Home office stipend
- An equity program
- Volunteer opportunities
- Company-sponsored charitable programs
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