Senior Staff Engineer, Distributed Cloud AI Platform

Relativity; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity in the United States seeks a senior engineering leader to drive the design of distributed, scalable cloud services handling petabytes of data weekly. You will own architecture and guide execution across frontend, backend, and data layers.

You will mentor engineers, align technical decisions with product goals, and raise standards for performance, reliability, and security as Relativity continues to push AI-powered legal data solutions at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building and operating cloud-native distributed systems.
• Strong leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Background in architecture, security and reliability at scale.
• Ability to translate business goals into technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed, scalable cloud services processing petabytes of data weekly.
• Provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers.
• Collaborate to build AI-powered legal data solutions at scale.
• Drive engineering standards: performance, scalability, reliability, security; through reviews and best practices.
• Mentor senior/lead engineers and shape technical culture.

Skills

Algorithms

Distributed Systems

Technical Leadership

System Designs

Performance Tuning

Software Development

Problem Solving

Automation

Project Management

Job description

Relativity in the United States seeks a senior engineering leader to drive the design of distributed, scalable cloud services handling petabytes of data weekly. You will own architecture and guide execution across frontend, backend, and data layers.

You will mentor engineers, align technical decisions with product goals, and raise standards for performance, reliability, and security as Relativity continues to push AI-powered legal data solutions at scale.