Senior Software Engineer

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company building an AI-powered, cloud platform called RelativityOne to transform massive volumes of complex information into actionable insights for litigation, investigations, regulatory inquiries, and other legal work. Their Search Infrastructure Team develops and operates foundational search capabilities behind Relativity Search, focusing on distributed search infrastructure to improve scalability, query performance, and operational excellence.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing commercial-grade software systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building, operating, or scaling distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with reliability, availability, and operational readiness practices for mission-critical systems at scale.
• Production support or on-call experience including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Strong problem-solving skills using operational data.
• Experience designing scalable solutions in a major public cloud environment.
• Hands-on programming experience in a modern backend language.
• Effective collaboration skills across engineering, SRE, product, and architecture teams.
• Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred:

• Experience running and scaling petabyte-scale search, indexing, or retrieval infrastructure.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lance, TurboPuffer, or similar search/vector infrastructure.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native platform operations.
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Pulumi, Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and progressive delivery.
• Experience building or operating monitoring and observability systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, or New Relic.
• Comfortable working in Linux-based production environments.
• Experience improving performance, reliability, cost efficiency, or operational toil in large-scale infrastructure systems.

• Design, build, and operate scalable search platform capabilities in a cloud environment.
• Run and improve production systems supporting high-volume, mission-critical customer workflows.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable code using sound software engineering practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, resolve defects, and support customer-impacting incidents.
• Improve observability, automation, capacity planning, and operational readiness for search infrastructure.
• Participate in production support and on-call responsibilities after onboarding.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, product, and architecture partners to evolve the search platform roadmap.