Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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

Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own multi-team reliability and infrastructure architecture, drive cross-functional initiatives, and set the standard for operational excellence across Legora's platform. The role involves architecting reliability and infrastructure strategy, owning observability, capacity planning, and monitoring for complex distributed systems, defining SLI/SLO frameworks, leading incident management, and championing toil reduction and system resilience. Requires deep experience operating large-scale production systems and strong architectural judgment for distributed systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Architect and own reliability and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams and services
  2. Own the observability, capacity planning, and monitoring strategy for complex distributed systems
  3. Define and evolve SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets, and production readiness standards org-wide
  4. Lead incident management practices, escalation design, and drive systemic improvements from post-mortems
  5. Champion toil reduction, on-call sustainability, and long-term system resilience

Skills

Required

  • operating large-scale production systems
  • designing large-scale production systems
  • improving large-scale production systems
  • architectural judgment for distributed systems
  • failure modes
  • scalability
  • graceful degradation
  • communication

Nice to have

  • cross-functional leadership
  • incident management
  • SLI/SLO frameworks
  • error budgets
  • production readiness standards
  • toil reduction
  • on-call sustainability
  • system resilience
  • deployment safety

What the JD emphasized

  • 5-day in-office role
  • operational excellence