Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

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

Benefits

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