Remote Staff Software Engineer – AI-Powered Cloud Systems

Relativity; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Parental leave

Annual bonus

Job summary

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company providing AI-powered cloud platforms that help organizations organize data and uncover truth in high-stakes legal work. We build scalable, secure cloud services to process massive data sets and deliver AI-powered insights for litigation, investigations, and regulatory inquiries.

We seek engineers who can drive architecture across frontend, backend, and data layers, mentor senior engineers, and raise standards for performance, reliability,

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building, and operating complex cloud-native distributed systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Strong background in architecture, security, and reliability at scale.
• Ability to define technical direction and drive cross-team alignment.
• Experience translating business goals into technical strategy.
• Proven ability to influence without formal authority.
• Strong mentorship and technical communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design of distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services that process petabytes of data weekly, owning architecture and implementation while influencing execution across engineering.
• Resolve complex, cross-organizational technical problems through deep technical expertise, collaboration, and hands-on implementation.
• Provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers, collaborating with teams, peers, and principal engineers on system design and architecture.
• Collaborate closely with teams to solve complex technical and business problems and build AI-powered legal data solutions that operate at massive scale.
• Drive engineering standards across multiple teams, including performance, scalability, reliability, and security, through design and code reviews, patterns, best practices, documented standards, and coaching.
• Align technical execution with product strategy and delivery commitments, identifying and removing technical and operational friction.
• Mentor senior and lead engineers, shaping technical decision-making and technical culture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Architectural design

Security at scale

Mentorship

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Algorithmic thinking

Job description

Relativity is a leading legal data intelligence company providing AI-powered cloud platforms that help organizations organize data and uncover truth in high-stakes legal work. We build scalable, secure cloud services to process massive data sets and deliver AI-powered insights for litigation, investigations, and regulatory inquiries.

We seek engineers who can drive architecture across frontend, backend, and data layers, mentor senior engineers, and raise standards for performance, reliability,