Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for modern legal work. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will serve as the senior technical authority for site reliability, owning strategy across observability, alerting, and platform infrastructure while leading reliability improvements, mentoring engineers, and guiding production-scale technical decisions.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical strategy for Observability & Alerting, Platform Infrastructure, and operational excellence
- Lead the evolution of reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient cloud platforms and distributed systems
- Champion SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, operational readiness, and automation across the service lifecycle
- Lead the organization through complex production incidents and turn post-incident learning into permanent engineering improvements
- Build self-service platform capabilities that reduce toil, improve engineering safety and velocity, and make every team more capable of owning their own reliability
- Mentor engineers and serve as a trusted technical authority for long-term reliability and platform direction
Skills
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, including 6+ years in SRE and 3+ years leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives for distributed production systems
- Expert-level depth in observability and platform infrastructure, with broad expertise in incident response, capacity planning, automation, and reliability engineering
- Advanced experience with a major container-orchestration platform, preferably Kubernetes, and an observability platform such as New Relic, Datadog, or equivalent
- Strong software-engineering ability in Python, Go, Bash, or another general-purpose language, with experience building production tooling, automation, or platform capabilities
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and communicate technical risk clearly to engineering, product, and executive audiences
- This role is remote-friendly for candidates based in the US
- Candidates located in or near the San Francisco Bay Area will work on a hybrid basis (2–3 days/week in-office) out of our San Francisco headquarters
- Experience in a regulated environment such as FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or PCI is strongly preferred
Benefits
- Stock options
- A paid time off policy
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Remote-friendly for candidates based in the US
- Candidates located in or near the San Francisco Bay Area will work on a hybrid basis (2–3 days/week in-office) out of our San Francisco headquarters.
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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