Relativity

Legal Technology

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

$126–126k Illinois, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at Relativity. Skills: Kubernetes, Cloud computing, AI tools. Design distributed services. Develop distributed services”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver scalable software faster; Shape future legal technology; Uncover critical insights; Ensure compliance; Advance access to justice; Evolve platform; Surface relevant information; Manage impactful information

Industry & Context.

Legal Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem Solving; Troubleshoot complex issues; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years experience cloud-native systems, Understanding cloud-native development, Understanding distributed architectures, Own and deliver complex solutions, Solid understanding CI/CD, Solid understanding observability, Solid understanding incident response, Experience guiding engineers, Experience mentoring engineers, Cross-functional communication skills, Collaboration skills

Nice to Have

Experience building full-stack systems, Familiarity performance tuning, Familiarity scalability trade-offs, Experience high-scale environments, Experience regulated environments, Familiarity AI-development tools

What You'll Do.

Design distributed services

Develop distributed services

Operate distributed services

Build accessible user interfaces

Build backend services

Collaborate with teammates

Collaborate with product partners

Build AI-powered solutions

Troubleshoot complex issues

Resolve complex issues

Influence reliability practices

Influence security practices

Influence performance practices

Provide technical direction

Raise engineering quality

Raise maintainability

Drive service ownership

Lead reliability efforts

Participate on-call rotations

Guide incident response

Guide root cause analysis

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Diverse teammates; Product partners; Cross-functional communication; Collaboration skills

Communication Scope

Cross-functional communication

Process & Methodology

Project Management

Full Job Description

__**Posting Type**__ Hybrid/Remote __**Job Overview**__ Who We Are Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building technology that helps users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it with confidence. Our AI‑powered, cloud platform, RelativityOne, transforms massive volumes of complex information into actionable insights for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, data breach responses, and other high‑stakes legal work where accuracy and trust are crucial. The world’s largest law firms, corporations and government agencies rely on Relativity’s legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters. Beyond our commercial impact, we’re deeply committed to expanding access to technology for academic institutions through Relativity Academic and supporting pro bono legal work through Justice for Change. What We Do At Relativity, engineers don’t just write code— they harness AI tools to architect, optimize, and deliver scalable software faster and shape the future of legal technology. They shape how industries uncover critical insights, ensure compliance, advance access to justice and continuously evolve our platform using the latest technologies, including cloud-native architectures, AI capabilities, and modern developer tooling. Our AI powers privacy programs, identifies confidential information, and detects language indicating misconduct. We’re reimagining how legal professionals uncover truth at scale, and engineering is at the heart of that transformation. The Kubernetes Integration Team is seeking a Senior Engineer to help us prototype and rapidly build new tooling atop Kubernetes. You’ll have a thorough background in Kubernetes and related technologies, and in cloud computing in general. If you’re interested in joining a smart, capable, laid-back team that gets stuff done and builds stuff that matters, then we want to meet you. If you’re passionate about solving hard problems,

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