Relativity · 5 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer
Iowa, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $224K/yr
6+ years expRelativity is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Retrieval Ingestion Team. This role involves designing and operating high throughput ingestion pipelines, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the development of fault-tolerant systems that maintain the discoverability of billions of documents.
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Responsibilities
Lead the Retrieval Ingestion Team, providing technical direction, mentoring, and coordination across projects
Architect and maintain scalable ingestion pipelines that handle billions of documents reliably and efficiently
Drive adoption of event-driven and micro-batch ingestion frameworks using Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink
Collaborate with retrieval engineers to ensure ingested data is optimized for indexing and retrieval performance (sharding, metadata enrichment, incremental updates)
Establish SLAs and monitoring for ingestion throughput, latency, data completeness, and recovery
Partner with platform, security, and compliance teams to ensure ingestion pipelines handle sensitive legal data securely and meet enterprise standards
Champion best practices in CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and operational readiness for ingestion systems
Contribute to innovation by incorporating vector indexing, knowledge graph enrichment, and AI-driven pipelines into the ingestion workflow
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead role
Proven expertise in building distributed ingestion or ETL systems for search or largescale data platforms
Deep knowledge of indexing/search systems (Elasticsearch, Lucene, Solr, Vespa, or OpenSearch)
Strong programming skills in C#, Java, Python, or Go, with emphasis on reliability and performance
Familiarity with schema evolution, metadata modeling, and handling semi/unstructured data for indexing
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
Strong background in observability and operational resilience for ingestion systems
Preferred
Experience integrating embeddings and vector databases into ingestion workflows
Familiarity with knowledge graph enrichment for entity and relationship extraction during ingestion
Background in compliance-heavy domains such as legal, finance, or healthcare
Experience with change data capture (CDC) and event sourcing patterns
Contributions to open-source ingestion, indexing, or retrieval frameworks
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Long-term incentives
Company
Relativity
Relativity's makes software to manage large volumes of data and identify key issues during litigation, investigations, and compliance.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$125MKey Investors
Silver LakeICONIQ Growth
2021-03-18Private Equity
2015-02-03Private Equity· $125M
Leadership Team
Phil Saunders
Chief Executive Officer
Kirk Larsen
Chief Financial Officer
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