Senior Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability Champion

Legora; Town of Stockholm (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Legora redefines how legal work is done. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll join an enabling team focused on reliability, performance, and a rock-solid platform that scales with the company.

You’ll work across infrastructure and backend systems, helping teams ship faster, safer, and smarter. You bring backend experience with strong infra, Kubernetes, and Pulumi, thriving in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Years of experience as a backend engineer with solid infrastructure, observability, and monitoring know-how.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Pulumi or similar IaC tools (e.g., AWS CDK, Terraform).
• Strong problem-solving with a hands-on, relentlessly pragmatic approach.

Responsibilities

• Build the core infrastructure and reliability abstractions used by all engineering teams.
• Structure SRE efforts across teams: observability, alerting, fault tolerance, reliability.
• Proactively monitor and evolve infrastructure for hyperscale and reliability.
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
• Work with Pulumi on Azure, AWS, and GCP deployments.

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure

Observability

Monitoring

Kubernetes

Pulumi

AWS CDK

Terraform

Tools

Pulumi

AWS CDK

Terraform

Job description

Legora redefines how legal work is done. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll join an enabling team focused on reliability, performance, and a rock-solid platform that scales with the company.

You’ll work across infrastructure and backend systems, helping teams ship faster, safer, and smarter. You bring backend experience with strong infra, Kubernetes, and Pulumi, thriving in a fast-paced setting.