Remote Senior Principal Engineer: Streaming-First Systems

kcura; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Home office stipend

Two annual company breaks

Parental leave

Job summary

Relativity is seeking an engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems with strict availability targets. You’ll drive streaming-first processing, mentor senior engineers, and lead AI-assisted and agentic development across the Enrichment domain while shaping architecture and standards that scale to petabytes of data monthly.

In this hands-on role, you’ll stay close to code, metrics, and production systems, collaborating with executives to align technical vision with

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing, building and operating complex cloud-native distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate always-on, secure distributed systems with rigorous availability, throughput, and error SLOs.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Temporal

High-throughput processing

Architectural leadership

Mentorship

Executive collaboration

Security & observability

AI-assisted engineering

Streaming data processing

Tools

Kubernetes

Temporal

Spark

Kafka

Delta Lake

Job description

Relativity is seeking an engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems with strict availability targets. You’ll drive streaming-first processing, mentor senior engineers, and lead AI-assisted and agentic development across the Enrichment domain while shaping architecture and standards that scale to petabytes of data monthly.

In this hands-on role, you’ll stay close to code, metrics, and production systems, collaborating with executives to align technical vision with