Senior Software Engineer

Relativity is a legal data intelligence company that builds technology to organize data, discover truth, and act on it with confidence. They operate the AI-powered cloud platform RelativityOne, used by large law firms, corporations, and government agencies for legal workflows. The Search Infrastructure Team develops and operates foundational search capabilities for Relativity Search, focusing on scalable, high-performance distributed search infrastructure in the legal tech domain.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years professional experience developing commercial-grade software or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience building, operating, or scaling distributed systems in production.
• Familiarity with mission-critical systems at scale, including reliability and operational readiness.
• Production support or on-call experience including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to diagnose complex system behavior using operational data.
• Experience designing or developing scalable solutions in a major public cloud environment.
• Hands-on programming experience in a modern backend language.
• Ability to collaborate effectively 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 comparable 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, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and progressive delivery.
• Experience building or operating monitoring, observability, and alerting systems like 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.

• 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.
• Participate in production support and on-call responsibilities after onboarding.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, product, and architecture partners to evolve the search platform roadmap.
• Identify and implement platform optimizations and enhancements to improve reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Help define and promote engineering standards and contribute to the long-term architecture of the search platform.