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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Relativity
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $126,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, Database Engines, GitHub Copilot, Backend, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=95df7061d87a49b9

## About the Role

Required

 * This position requires the successful acquisition and maintenance of a Public Trust clearance. Candidates must be U.S. citizens to satisfy applicable clearance eligibility requirements.

 * 5+ years of experience designing, building and operating cloud-native systems.

 * Strong understanding of cloud-native development and distributed architectures .

 * Demonstrated ability to own and deliver complex solutions end to end, improving quality through thoughtful design discussions and thorough code reviews

 * Solid understanding of CI/CD, observability, and incident response .

 * Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.

 * Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals replication strategies, partitioning, and CAP/PACELC trade-offs

 * Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex issues like data skew, hot spots, clock skew, and split-brain scenarios

Preferred

 * Experience building systems at scale.

 * Familiarity with performance tuning and scalability trade-offs .

 * Experience in high-scale or regulated environments .

 * Familiarity with AI-development tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor or Claude Code.

 * Familiarity with storage engine internals - LSM trees, B-trees, compaction strategies, and write amplification

 * Familiarity with FedRAMP compliance frameworks

## Description

* Design, develop, and operate distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services, delivering reliable systems at petabyte scale.

 * Build backend services and data pipelines to deliver customer impact.

 * Collaborate daily with a diverse group of teammates and product partners to solve problems, achieve team goals, and build AI- powered legal data solutions that operate at massive scale .

 * Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production environments as well as providing root cause analysis

 * Influence reliability, security, and performance practices through example and feedback

 * Provide technical direction and mentorship to your team, lead design and code reviews, raising engineering quality and maintainability.

 * Drive service ownership by leading reliability efforts, participating in on-call rotations, and guiding incident response, resolution, and root cause analysis.


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