Advanced Software Engineer
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Job description
The world's largest law firms, corporations, and government agencies rely on Relativity's legal AI software to securely surface and manage the most relevant and impactful information in their matters. Beyond our commercial impact, we're deeply committed to expanding access to technology for academic institutions through Relativity Academic and supporting pro bono legal work through Justice for Change.
WHAT WE DO At Relativity, engineers don't just write code. They build the foundational systems that industries rely on to uncover critical insights, ensure compliance, and operate securely at scale. Our platform combines cloudnative architectures, modern developer tooling, and AI capabilities to deliver trusted outcomes across highly regulated environments.
User Authentication Team The User Authentication team builds and operates tier0 identity and authentication services that protect customer access to Relativity's platform. These services sit directly on the request path for every user interaction, requiring an exceptional focus on availability, security, and correctness. The team partners closely with product, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable authentication workflows, improve reliability and observability, and continuously raise the bar on operational excellence.
If you're passionate about building securitycritical systems, designing for failure, and owning highly available services that operate at global scale, Relativity offers the opportunity to make a measurable impact., * Design, develop, and operate authentication and identity services that are secure, highly available, and scalable
- Build and maintain integrations with identity providers, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and SAMLbased systems
- Own production reliability for critical services, including oncall rotations, incident response, and postincident learning
- Implement defenseindepth security controls such as multifactor authentication (MFA), token lifecycle management, and leastprivilege access
- Improve system observability through metrics, structured logging, dashboards, and alerting
- Participate in code and design reviews with a strong emphasis on security, correctness, and failure modes
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with product, security, and platform teams to deliver authentication features, improvements, and migrations
- Contribute to longterm identity and authentication strategy across the platform
Requirements
Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as C#, Java, or Python
- Experience designing and operating cloudbased services
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including availability, failure handling, and scalability
Preferred
- Experience building or operating authentication, authorization, or other securitycritical systems
- Working knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and/or SAML
- Experience operating tier0 or businesscritical services with high availability requirements
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and CI/CD practices in production environments, Engineering Principle, Hardware Integration, Innovation, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Quality Assurance (QA), Research and Development, System Designs, Technical Documents, Troubleshooting
Benefits & conditions
Impactful Mission
- Your work helps protect customer access to systems used in highstakes legal and regulatory matters around the world.
SecurityCritical Engineering
- You'll design and operate authentication services that sit on the request path for every user, with real ownership over reliability and security.
Growth and Ownership
- Engineers on this team own services endtoend, from design through production operations, gaining deep experience in distributed systems and security.
Engineering Culture
- Strong focus on operational excellence, observability, postincident learning, and raising the quality bar through thoughtful reviews.
Inclusive Environment
- Diverse backgrounds and perspectives make our teams and our products stronger.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary, health and retirement programs, wellness resources, discretionary time off (DTO), parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, two annual company breaks, home office stipend, and an equity program.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values: $103,000 and $155,000
The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
