Senior Cloud-Native AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid/Remote)

Relativity; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Two annual company breaks

Equity program

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate distributed cloud services at petabyte scale within a hybrid environment in Illinois. You will build backend data pipelines, collaborate with diverse teams, and drive reliability through incident response and on-call work.

The role emphasizes mentorship and code quality through design reviews. You will own end-to-end solutions, apply cross-functional skills, and contribute to AI-powered legal data platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with designing, building and operating cloud-native distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate distributed, scalable cloud services.
• Build backend data pipelines delivering customer impact.
• Collaborate with product and engineering partners to solve problems at scale.
• Lead reviews, provide technical direction, and mentor teammates.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Code reviews

On-call ownership

Mentorship

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Relativity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate distributed cloud services at petabyte scale within a hybrid environment in Illinois. You will build backend data pipelines, collaborate with diverse teams, and drive reliability through incident response and on-call work.

The role emphasizes mentorship and code quality through design reviews. You will own end-to-end solutions, apply cross-functional skills, and contribute to AI-powered legal data platforms.