Senior Cloud-Native Platform Lead

Relativity

Illinois

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 224,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Discretionary time off

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Job summary

Relativity, a leading legal data intelligence company, builds an AI-powered cloud platform that helps users organize data, surface truth, and act with confidence. Engineers design scalable software and Kubernetes-backed infrastructure, delivering privacy-aware, multi-tenant solutions at scale for law firms, corporations, and government entities.

The Shared Compute Infrastructure team maintains the AKS-based platform across clouds, focusing on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency for

Qualifications

7+ years designing, building and operating cloud-native systems.
Experience running Kubernetes in production.
Ownership of CI/CD and observability.

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.
Provide clear technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers, collaborating with team, staff, and principal engineers on system design.
Collaborate daily with a diverse group of teammates and product partners to solve problems, achieve shared goals, and build AI-powered legal data solutions that operate at massive scale.
Mentor engineers and lead through technical expertise, collaboration, and sound engineering judgment.
Establish and evolve engineering standards through design and code reviews, patterns, best practices, and coaching.
Align team execution with product strategy and delivery commitments, identifying and removing technical friction.
Lead service ownership across the team by driving reliability efforts, on-call practices, incident response, resolution, and root cause analysis.
Own delivery of platform capabilities across cluster lifecycle, workload scheduling, and infrastructure automation, applying and enforcing cloud-native architecture standards for the services your team owns.
Partner with consuming engineering teams to onboard their workloads onto the platform, translating their reliability and scale requirements into platform capabilities rather than one-off exceptions.
Drive platform efficiency and capacity outcomes for your team’s surface area, balancing reliability targets against compute cost.