Senior Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at Legora AB. New York · full-time · $237,000–$320,850 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and run core platform services, taking responsibility for them from development through operations
- Create observability for metrics, logs, and traces, then use those signals to guide reliability work
- Set reliability targets, alerts, and reporting for critical systems, and keep those measures current
- Strengthen incident response through clearer escalation, coordination, on-call practices, and post-incident follow-up
- Automate repetitive work and help product and platform engineers make systems more resilient and deployments safer
What you bring
- Substantial experience running production systems, diagnosing urgent failures, and preventing them from recurring
- You can write software and build automation to address reliability problems
- Hands-on strength in observability, incident handling, and on-call work, plus cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes experience
Who this fits
This senior role suits an autonomous engineer who thinks through failure modes, graceful degradation, and practical tradeoffs. You’ll join a new SRE team in New York and work closely with Stockholm-based teams. The job requires being in the New York office five days a week.
From the employer
About Us
Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.
Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.
2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.
Joining Legora means three things.
We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.
We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.
We grow together: as a team and with our customers.
Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.
If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.
The role
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
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
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 & VisionMultiple 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
Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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