Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Legora Legora · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Engineering & Product

Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the founding SRE team at a new NYC engineering hub. The role involves owning critical services end-to-end, partnering across engineering to raise the reliability bar for the entire platform, and working closely with teams in Stockholm. This is a 5-day in-office role.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build, ship, and operate foundational platform services with full ownership
  2. Build and maintain a high-signal observability stack (metrics, logs, traces) and translate signals into action
  3. Define and evolve SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and reliability reporting for critical systems
  4. Improve on-call and incident response, including escalation paths, coordination, and post-incident follow-ups
  5. Reduce toil through automation, better tooling, and improved system ergonomics

Skills

Required

  • 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 the JD emphasized

  • 5-day in-office role
  • 5-day in-office