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Filevine is a top-rated cloud-based case management solution for small and midsize legal firms and legal professionals.
The Role
The Architect I role involves defining cloud infrastructure strategies, guiding teams on Kubernetes and CI/CD, ensuring system reliability, and mentoring engineers.
Summary Generated by Built In
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.
Our Mission
Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.
Role Summary:
This architect will also take ownership of operability concerns, guiding teams to build systems with observability, proactive monitoring, and actionable alerting at their core. They will help define service-level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and reliability standards across services, ensuring Filevine’s platform meets the demands of enterprise-scale customers. By partnering with engineering, security, and product teams, the SRE/Infra Architect will foster a culture of reliability and provide mentorship on performance optimization and incident prevention. In this way, the architect not only sets the direction for how we build, but also ensures our systems are designed to run smoothly in production at scale.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve cloud infrastructure strategy (with emphasis on AWS), ensuring systems are secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.
- Provide architectural guidance on Kubernetes/EKS clusters, container orchestration, and workload optimization.
- Lead the design and adoption of CI/CD pipelines and related automation for consistent, reliable software delivery.
- Establish and enforce monitoring, observability, and alerting standards, including logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable alerts.
- Partner with teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets that align with customer and business needs.
- Drive best practices in infrastructure as code (IaC), configuration management, and automated environment provisioning.
- Support teams in building highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient systems across multiple regions.
- Mentor engineers and tech-leads across Filevine on reliability principles, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
Qualifications
- Expertise in Cloud-Native Infrastructure (AWS): Deep knowledge of designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on AWS services.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes/EKS and Container Orchestration: Extensive experience with Kubernetes (particularly AWS EKS) for container orchestration, workload optimization, and managing distributed systems.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong skills in implementing and advocating for IaC practices, including tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, for automated and repeatable environment provisioning.
- CI/CD Pipeline Design and Automation: Proven ability to design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable consistent, reliable, and automated software delivery processes.
- Observability and Monitoring Expertise: In-depth knowledge of establishing monitoring, observability, and alerting systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and actionable alerts to ensure system reliability.
- Defining SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets: Experience in partnering with teams to define service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets that align with enterprise-scale customer and business requirements.
Cool Company Benefits:
- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
- Top-of-the-line company swag
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Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
CloudFormation
Eks
Kubernetes
Terraform
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The Company
What We Do
Filevine is case management software built for and inspired by real attorneys. As a fully-featured suite of tools, it comes ready to manage every part of a moving case. Assign tasks, upload files or images, monitor staff productivity, and communicate with your client directly from within their case file.
Our software is built on the truth that every law firm functions differently. That’s why Filevine is so customizable. Build new case-type templates, design automatic workflows, and receive customized reports on a schedule that fits your needs.
Accessing your information is never a problem, because Filevine is hosted on The Cloud. To ensure security, your law firm’s data is protected through state-of-the-art encryption on redundant servers. All you need to get started is an internet connection and your favorite web browser.
Learn more at filevine.com.
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