Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Filevine is a Legal AI company delivering Legal Operating Intelligence for the future of legal work. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be the senior technical authority on the SRE team, shaping engineering culture and defining technical standards while ensuring the reliability and performance of production systems.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the technical strategy for Observability & Alerting, Platform Infrastructure, and operational excellence
• Lead the evolution of reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient cloud platforms and distributed systems
• Champion SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, operational readiness, and automation across the service lifecycle
• Lead the organization through complex production incidents and turn post-incident learning into permanent engineering improvements
• Build self-service platform capabilities that reduce toil, improve engineering safety and velocity, and make every team more capable of owning their own reliability
• Mentor engineers and serve as a trusted technical authority for long-term reliability and platform direction

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE, including 6+ years in SRE and 3+ years leading complex, cross-functional technical initiatives for distributed production systems
• Expert-level depth in observability and platform infrastructure, with broad expertise in incident response, capacity planning, automation, and reliability engineering
• Advanced experience with a major container-orchestration platform, preferably Kubernetes, and an observability platform such as New Relic, Datadog, or equivalent
• Strong software-engineering ability in Python, Go, Bash, or another general-purpose language, with experience building production tooling, automation, or platform capabilities
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and communicate technical risk clearly to engineering, product, and executive audiences
• Experience in a regulated environment such as FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or PCI is strongly preferred