Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Legora

• $150K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in site reliability engineering or a related field.
  • Proven track record of operating and improving large-scale production systems.
  • Strong understanding of distributed system architecture and failure modes.
  • Ability to lead reliability initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Excellent communication skills for knowledge sharing and documentation.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement cross-team reliability and infrastructure strategy.
  • Manage observability, capacity planning, and monitoring for distributed systems.
  • Define and refine SLI/SLO frameworks and error budgets.
  • Lead incident management practices and implement improvements from learnings.
  • Drive initiatives for toil reduction and long-term system resilience.
  • Facilitate design reviews to ensure operational quality and safety.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
  • Meaningful work impacting thousands of legal professionals.
  • Collaborative in-office environment for innovation.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage through top providers.
  • Generous parental leave and family support benefits.
  • Unlimited PTO and 401(K) with company match.
  • Robust additional perks like commuter benefits and legal protection.
Full Job Description
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer you'll play a lead role on the founding SRE team at our new NYC engineering hub. You'll own multi-team reliability and infrastructure architecture, drive cross-functional initiatives, and set the standard for operational excellence across Legora's platform, partnering 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 - Architect and own reliability and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams and services - Own the observability, capacity planning, and monitoring strategy for complex distributed systems - Define and evolve SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets, and production readiness standards org-wide - Lead incident management practices, escalation design, and drive systemic improvements from post-mortems - Champion toil reduction, on-call sustainability, and long-term system resilience - Partner across engineering to lead design reviews and raise the bar on deployment safety and operational quality What You Bring - Deep experience operating, designing, and improving large-scale production systems - A technical leader who drives reliability outcomes across teams, not just within your own - Strong architectural judgment for distributed systems: failure modes, scalability, and graceful degradation - Effective communicator who spreads knowledge through post-mortems, runbooks, and design guidance What's 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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