Staff Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at Legora AB. New York · full-time · $272,850–$369,150 base.
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What you'll do
- Set reliability and infrastructure direction across services and teams, taking responsibility for the architecture
- Build the approach to observability, capacity planning, and monitoring for complex distributed systems
- Establish organization-wide SLI/SLO practices, error budgets, and checks for production readiness
- Lead incident response and escalation design, then turn post-mortem findings into lasting fixes
- Improve deployment safety and operational quality through engineering design reviews, while reducing toil and supporting sustainable on-call work
What you bring
- You have deep experience running, designing, and improving large production systems
- You can lead reliability improvements across teams, not only within your immediate group
- You bring strong distributed-systems judgment on failure behavior, scalability, and graceful degradation
- You communicate effectively and share operational knowledge through post-mortems, runbooks, and design guidance
Who this fits
This staff-level role suits a technical leader who can shape reliability across multiple teams and services. You’ll join the founding SRE team at the New York engineering hub and work closely with teams in Stockholm. The role requires working from 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 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 & 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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