Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Legora

• $145K — $175K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in site reliability engineering or a related field
  • Proficient in building software and automation for reliability solutions
  • Demonstrated ability to operate and improve production systems
  • Experience in observability, incident management, and on-call duties
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills

Responsibilities

  • Build and manage core platform services with full ownership
  • Develop and oversee a comprehensive observability stack
  • Define SLIs/SLOs and enhance reliability reporting for key systems
  • Enhance incident response processes and coordination
  • Minimize operational toil through automation and improved tooling
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to design fault-tolerant systems

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact using AI in legal settings
  • In-person collaboration in an office designed for innovative teamwork
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage through multiple providers
  • Generous parental leave and family support programs
  • 401(K) with a strong company match and unlimited PTO
  • Access to various additional perks, including commuter benefits and legal coverage
Full Job Description
The role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer youll join the founding SRE team at our new NYC engineering hub, sitting within Foundations. Youll 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 Youll 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

What You Bring
  • 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

Whats In It For You
  • Global collaboration: Partner with teams and clients domestic and internationally.
  • Competitive package: Comprehensive salary, benefits, and tools for success.
  • Meaningful work: Your efforts shape how thousands of lawyers use AI daily.
  • In-person environment: Union Square office designed for ambitious builders.
  • Benefits & Perks: We invest in our people with a comprehensive, thoughtfully designed benefits package:
    Medical, Dental & Vision
    • Multiple medical plan options through Aetna and Kaiser Permanente
    • HSA or Healthcare FSA (based on plan selection)
    • Dental plans via MetLife
    • Vision plans via Vision Care

    Family Support
    • Generous parental leave
    • Free access to Maven Clinic
    • Dependent Care FSA
    • Free One Medical membership for employees and dependents

    Additional Perks
    • Pre-tax commuter benefits
    • Life Insurance + STD/LTD
    • 401(K) with generous company match
    • Unlimited PTO
    • Robust voluntary benefits, including identity protection (via Aura), legal coverage via MetLife, pet savings programs, and more

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