Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - Hybrid/Remote

Relativity; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Equity program

DTO (Discretionary Time Off)

Parental leave

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a senior cloud-native leader to design, build, and operate scalable, multi-tenant cloud services processing massive data weekly. You will provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers, mentor engineers, and drive platform reliability and cost efficiency while influencing product strategy at scale.

You will own the platform’s cluster lifecycle, workload scheduling, and infra automation, with a strong emphasis on security, observability, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, building and operating cloud-native systems.
• Ability to set technical direction and lead teams effectively.
• Hands-on experience designing and building distributed, multi-tenant systems.
• Ownership of CI/CD, observability, and service reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services that process petabytes of data weekly, contributing directly to implementation and guiding your team’s execution.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud-native systems

Distributed systems

Kubernetes in production

CI/CD ownership

Observability

Multi-tenant security

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Azure AKS

Job description

Relativity is seeking a senior cloud-native leader to design, build, and operate scalable, multi-tenant cloud services processing massive data weekly. You will provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers, mentor engineers, and drive platform reliability and cost efficiency while influencing product strategy at scale.

You will own the platform’s cluster lifecycle, workload scheduling, and infra automation, with a strong emphasis on security, observability, and