Lead Software Engineer
$270,000–$406,000 year
On-siteKraków, Lesser Poland, Poland or Katowice, Silesia, Poland
Job Summary
Lead Software Engineer at Relativity within the Data Transfer group of the Ingestion Department. Define architecture strategy and non-functional design to meet SLO/SLA and cost goals, lead multi-team Azure delivery (AKS, Event Hubs/Service Bus, Cosmos DB/SQL), and implement practices such as canary and blue-green deployments, environment parity, and automatic rollback. Own reliability and observability with standardized tracing, metrics, logging, and alerting; drive post-incident root cause analyses; champion Infrastructure as Code and platform pave roads; guide design reviews and establish quality standards; collaborate with Product on data-informed trade-offs; influence stakeholders and support team growth; communicate through ADRs and narratives linking technical trade-offs to customer and business outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building distributed SaaS systems using .NET/C# or similar technologies, including 3+ years leading initiatives or teams
- Deep expertise in Azure, including AKS, Service Bus/Event Hubs, and Cosmos DB or SQL
- Proven ownership of SLO/SLA outcomes, including on-call leadership and driving root cause analyses that eliminate repeat incidents
- Strong experience with observability at scale, including OpenTelemetry tracing, metrics, logging, dashboards, and alert design
- Experience with CI/CD practices, including GitHub Actions or similar tools, canary/blue-green deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and communicate clearly in English
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