Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Legora is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer in New York, United States. It pays $273k-$369k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Legora.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions site reliability engineering, infrastructure architecture and observability among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Legora has 304 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Lead reliability and infrastructure strategy for distributed systems at an AI-native legal tech company.
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.
How we rate this
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Legora rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where site reliability engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where observability was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where incident management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
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