Advanced Software Engineer - AI Platform

kcura; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

DTO (discretionary time off)

Equity program

Two annual company breaks

Parental leave for caregivers

Wellness resources

Job summary

Relativity is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the AI Platform's Experimentation Infrastructure team. You will design, build, and operate cloud-native services that power scalable AI experiments across the platform.

You will collaborate across product and design, own reliability and security, and stay ahead of evolving AI tooling to help legal teams organize data, discover truth, and move faster.

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing, building, and operating cloud-native distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with APIs, event-driven architecture, and data platforms.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code using CI/CD.
• Security- and reliability-focused mindset with cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, development, and operation of distributed, scalable cloud services processing petabytes weekly.
• Build performant, accessible interfaces and extend backend data pipelines.
• Consistently implement clean, testable, maintainable code to deliver customer impact.
• Collaborate with a diverse group of teammates and product partners to solve problems and build AI-powered legal data solutions at scale.
• Actively contribute to design and code reviews to improve quality and maintainability.
• Contribute to service ownership by supporting reliability efforts, including on-call rotations.
• Work with Relativity teams to drive delivery and stay current with AI tooling.

Skills

Cloud-native design

Distributed systems

APIs

Event-driven architecture

Security & reliability

Cross-functional collaboration

CI/CD

Tools

Python

GitHub

Docker

Azure

Kubernetes

Databricks

MLflow

OpenTelemetry

PagerDuty

Cursor

Claude Code

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.

Job Description and Requirements

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.

This position will be part of the AI Platform’s Experimentation Infrastructure team. In brief, our mandate is to create and support tools and infrastructure that accelerate experimentation at Relativity.

Tech stack: Claude or Cursor, Python, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Databricks, MLflow, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty

If you’re passionate about solving hard problems, designing for scale, and building tools that matter—while working in a culture that values transparency, innovation, and shared success— Relativity offers the opportunity to make a measurable difference in the marketplace.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the design, development, and operation of distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services that process petabytes of data weekly.

• Build performant, accessible user interfaces and extend backend services and data pipelines.

• Consistently implement clean, testable, maintainable code to deliver customer impact.

• Collaborate with a diverse group of teammates and product partners to solve problems, achieve team goals, and build AI-powered legal data solutions at massive scale.

• Actively contribute to design and code reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve quality and maintainability.

• Contribute to service ownership by supporting reliability efforts, including on‑call rotations and incident response.

• Work continually with other Relativity teams to drive delivery.

• Stay abreast of the constantly changing world of AI tools and techniques.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• 3+ years designing, building, and operating cloud‑native, distributed systems

• Hands‑on experience with APIs, event‑driven architecture, and data platforms

• Comfortable developing cloud-based, distributed services.

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well‑tested code using modern tooling and CI/CD

• Security‑ and reliability‑focused mindset with strong cross‑functional collaboration across engineering, product, and design.

• Someone who asks, “What are we really doing? What makes that the right thing to do?” instead of just completing Jira tickets.

Preferred

• Familiarity with performance or cost optimization.

• Familiarity with AI-development tools like Cursor or Claude Code.

Why We Could Be A Great Fit

• Impactful Mission: Organize Data, Discover the Truth and Act on It- Our customers include Fortune 400 enterprises and leading law firms managing high-stakes matters on our platform.

• Growth Path: Engineers gain exposure across the stack, from distributed systems to AI-enabled workflows, accelerating career growth.

• Engineering Culture: Continuous delivery, strong observability, and end-to-end ownership.

• Inclusive Environment: Diverse backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger.

• Community Impact: Volunteer opportunities and company-sponsored charitable programs.

• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary, health and retirement programs, wellness resources, discretionary time off (DTO), parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, two annual company breaks, home office stipend, and an equity program.

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:

$103,000 and $155,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.

Required Skills:

Engineering Principle, Hardware Integration, Innovation, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Quality Assurance (QA), Research and Development, System Designs, Technical Documents, Troubleshooting