Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS

Filevine; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Competitive & Fair Pay

Maternity & paternity leave

Short & long‑term disability

Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team

Top‑of‑the‑line company swag

Job summary

A leading Legal AI company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance system reliability and performance. You will take charge of designing and maintaining autonomous systems, ensuring proactive response to system issues, and mentoring junior engineers. Applicants should have over 8 years of technical experience, including 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering, and strong scripting capabilities in Python and Bash. The role offers a competitive salary ranging from $160,000 to $190,000 and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, including 4 years in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation tools.
• Expert-level experience with autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead as the Reliability Engineering lead on the team.
• Design and maintain autonomous systems for product deployment.
• Monitor and respond to software/infrastructure events.

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

AWS (EC2, Kubernetes/EKS)

CI/CD best practices

Monitoring/alerting

Incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Equivalent certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional)

Job description

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. Grounded in a singular system of truth, Filevine brings together data, documents, workflows, and teams into one unified platform—where modern legal work happens with clarity and consistency.

Powered by LOIS, the Legal Operating Intelligence System, Filevine connects context across every matter to transform legal operations from reactive to proactive. LOIS reads, understands, and reasons across your data to surface insight, automate complexity, and give professionals the clarity and confidence to see more, know more, and do more. Fueled by a team of exceptional collaborators and innovators, Filevine’s rapid growth has earned AI awards and recognition from Deloitte and Inc. as one of the most innovative and fastest‑growing technology companies in the country.

Role Summary

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will be embedded with a cross‑functional team who has key responsibilities for certain portions of our systems. Over the course of the first year you will gain the valuable context needed to be truly effective and move at speed in the Filevine environment. During your successive years you will be given specific mission‑critical objectives that help build out and improve our autonomous systems and simultaneously build out your personal brand as an exceptional engineer who has built and maintained amazing systems that can grow to internet scale.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership, mentoring, and sound judgment as the Reliability Engineering lead on your team.
• Design and maintain autonomous systems for building, deploying, testing, and operating all Filevine products.
• Act as the authoritative voice of reliability across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Monitor, aggregate, dashboard, and alert on software/infrastructure events to ensure visibility and fast response.
• Continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, playbooks, and tools to streamline processes and reduce resolution time.
• Proactively identify and resolve gaps in system availability, performance, and security while defending overall security posture.
• Document processes, architecture, procedures, and best practices; research, adopt, or build reliable tools to boost engineer productivity.
• Collaborate within your team (or independently), mentor junior engineers, participate in 24/7 on‑call rotation for production support and emergency response, and communicate clearly with technical and management stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on technical experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or operations roles, including a minimum of 4 years dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Demonstrated curiosity, self‑motivation, continuous learning mindset, passion for improvement, and proactive enthusiasm to enhance systems and processes daily without needing direction.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, and other common SRE tooling and scripting technologies.
• Expert‑level experience designing, building, and maintaining autonomous systems that handle software build, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operations with minimal human intervention.
• Proficient hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, Kubernetes/EKS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, IAM).
• Proficiency in all core skills expected of an SRE II, including monitoring/alerting, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization, CI/CD pipeline enhancement, and reliability engineering best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional certifications, AWS certifications); or substantial comparable direct work experience.
• Proven track record of independently driving reliability improvements, reducing toil through automation, and contributing to high‑availability, scalable production systems in a fast‑paced environment.

Compensation Information

Compensation information: $160,000 - $190,000 base.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Cool Company Benefits

• A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full‑time employees)
• Competitive & Fair Pay
• Maternity & paternity leave (for full‑time employees)
• Short & long‑term disability
• Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
• Top‑of‑the‑line company swag

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