legora
Senior Platform Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- New York City, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Department
- Legora
- Posted
- 2026-07-27
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Legal
Requirements
You have years of experience as a backend engineer but have solid infrastructure, observability, and monitoring know-how
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Pulumi (preferred) or similar IaC tools like AWS CDK, Terraform
Responsibilities
Operate and evolve our Kubernetes and CNCF-aligned platform: cluster lifecycle, workload primitives, autoscaling, and the golden paths product teams build on
Own cloud ops end-to-end: networking, IAM, secrets, capacity, and cost across Azure, AWS, and GCP
Maintain and expand our growing processing regional architecture: independent Regions, data residency, per-Region operations, and the customer-selectable Region model.
Drive infrastructure as code with Pulumi: modules, guardrails, and review patterns the rest of engineering ships through
Improve reliability, performance, and cost: SLOs, observability, autoscaling, capacity planning, and on-call and incident response
Anchor the platform discipline in NYC and partner closely with SRE and Foundations across regions
About the Company
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.
1,000+ customers across 50+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to
$100M+ in ARR
, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI and Graceview.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.