Site Reliability Engineer, Filevine
$147-168k
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
Open for applications
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$147-168k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform
- Engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles, including at least 2 years in a Site Reliability
- Engineering or reliability-focused role
- Working knowledge of distributed systems and how applications, infrastructure, and cloud
- Services interact in production; demonstrated ability to troubleshoot production issues,
- Perform root cause analysis, and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Proficiency with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages; experience building
- Production tooling, automation, or CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based workloads and cloud infrastructure in
- AWS or a comparable platform, including compute, container orchestration, networking,
- IAM, object storage, and cloud-native monitoring
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS
- CloudFormation, and familiarity with modern observability practices including monitoring,
- Logging, alerting, distributed tracing, and incident response
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, accelerate
- Troubleshooting, or automate operational tasks; curiosity, ownership, and a passion for
- Building reliable systems through continuous improvement
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,
- Information Systems, or a related field, equivalent industry certifications, or comparable
- Professional experience
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer at Filevine, you will improve the reliability, scalability, and
- Operational maturity of the Filevine platform. You’ll design automation that reduces toil,
- Strengthen observability, support reliable deployments at scale, and solve production challenges
- That keep Filevine running for legal teams across the country. This role is built for engineers
- Who apply software engineering principles to infrastructure problems, thrive on complex
- Technical challenges, and are energized by taking ownership of the systems they build and
- Operate — growing into deeper expertise as their platform knowledge expands
- Design, build, and maintain the monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and
- Alerting that give teams meaningful visibility into production health
- Build automation, tooling, and CI/CD improvements that increase engineering efficiency,
- Reduce toil, and support reliable deployments at scale
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable systems for building, deploying, testing, and
- Operating Filevine products — proactively identifying and resolving reliability,
- Performance, scalability, and security risks before they impact customers
- Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation, using operational insights to drive automation
- And long-term reliability improvements; continuously improve runbooks, documentation,
- And engineering standards
- Take ownership of technical initiatives from design through implementation, develop deep
- Expertise in critical areas of the Filevine platform, and communicate clearly with technical
- And business stakeholders
Our take
Law firms, corporate legal teams and government agencies are under increasing pressure to handle more work, more data and tighter timelines, all without increasing costs. As a result, demand is growing for legal technology that can automate routine tasks, organize complex information and also help laywers work faster and more accurately. AI has become a key part of this change, and today it's hard to find interest in legal tech that doesn't have AI at its core.
Filevine is a good example of how this shift is playing out, Founded in 2014, the company began as a software-as-a-service platform helping legal teams manage cases, documents, billing and payments in one place. Over time though, Filevine has expanded into what it now calls a Legal Operating Intelligence System, bringing intelligence into the full lifecycle of a legal matter. And in recent years, the focus has moved strongly toward AI, as most of the company's revenue comes from its AI products rather than from its original software.
This growth shows just how well its aligned with where the market is heading, and with $400M from major investors, it continues to expand its platform, adding AI tools that connect across legal workflows. By bringing together case management, depositions, contracts and drafting into a single system, Filevine has positioned itself as a central operating platform for modern legal teams.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$108m
SERIES D
Total funding: $825.6m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Short & long-term disability
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- Centrally located open office in Sugar House
- Company swag that will make your friends envious
- Opportunity to make an impact on Day 1
Company HQ
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, UT
Leadership
Ryan Anderson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ryan co-founded Filevine in 2014 and has served as the CEO since.
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