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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Legora, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,000.0 - $276,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Fault Tolerance, Reliability Engineering, Kubernetes
- **Published:** June 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=182a9ebc564a19b6

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?, * Significant experience operating and improving production systems, including debugging under pressure and preventing repeat incidents

 * Comfortable writing software and building automation to solve reliability problems
 * Autonomous, with pride in the quality and resilience of the systems you ship and operate
 * A systems thinker: failure modes, graceful degradation, and practical tradeoffs
 * Strong observability, incident management, and on-call experience, as well as experience with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes

## Description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you'll join the founding SRE team at our new NYC engineering hub, sitting within Foundations. You'll own critical services end-to-end and partner across engineering to raise the reliability bar for the entire platform, working closely with teams in Stockholm.

 * This is a New York-based, 5-day in-office role. We believe building together in person drives better outcomes.

What You'll Do

 * Build, ship, and operate foundational platform services with full ownership
 * Build and maintain a high-signal observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) and translate signals into action
 * Define and evolve SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and reliability reporting for critical systems
 * Improve on-call and incident response, including escalation paths, coordination, and post-incident follow-ups
 * Reduce toil through automation, better tooling, and improved system ergonomics
 * Partner with product and platform engineers to design resilient systems and improve deployment safety


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