Staff Software Engineer — AI-Powered Cloud Scale

LE0001 Relativity ODA LLC; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 174,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Equity program

Annual company breaks

DTO (discretionary time off)

Health & retirement programs

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a senior software architect to drive design of distributed, scalable cloud services and mentor engineers across teams.

You will influence architectural direction, implement best practices, and collaborate with frontend, backend, and data teams to deliver AI-powered legal data solutions at scale. This hybrid/remote role emphasizes security, reliability, and scalable platform growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing, building and operating complex cloud-native distributed systems.
• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or domains.
• Strong background in architecture, security, and reliability at scale.
• Ability to define technical direction and drive cross-team alignment.
• Experience translating business goals into technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed, scalable, secure cloud services and own architecture across teams.
• Resolve cross-organizational technical problems through deep technical expertise and collaboration.
• Provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data layers with peers and engineers.
• Build AI-powered legal data solutions that operate at massive scale.
• Set engineering standards and drive performance, reliability, and security through reviews and patterns.
• Align technical execution with product strategy and delivery commitments, removing friction.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical culture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Security & reliability

Mentorship

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

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Claude Code

Job description

Relativity is seeking a senior software architect to drive design of distributed, scalable cloud services and mentor engineers across teams.

You will influence architectural direction, implement best practices, and collaborate with frontend, backend, and data teams to deliver AI-powered legal data solutions at scale. This hybrid/remote role emphasizes security, reliability, and scalable platform growth.