Posting Type
Remote/Hybrid
Job Overview
The Engineering Manager is responsible for building and leading a high-performing software engineering team, ensuring delivery of reliable, scalable, and secure solutions that meet business objectives.This role combines software engineering and technical leadership, operational readiness, and people management, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.
The manager partners with cross-functional teams to drive execution on strategic initiatives while mentoring engineers for career growth.
This role will report to Senior Manager, Infrastructure Services. This role can be remote; however, candidates commutable to our downtown Chicago IL office are highly desirable.
Job Description and Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent; create an inclusive and high-performance culture.
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning.
Promote knowledge sharing and continuous learning across the team.
Lead the team in adopting and continuously improving agile development practices, fostering iterative delivery, rapid feedback, and cross-functional collaboration.
Ensure timely delivery of projects with high quality and adherence to SLAs/SLOs.
Drive adoption of automation-first practices (CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code).
Oversee incident response and root cause analysis; champion blameless postmortems and systemic improvements.
Collaborate with architects and senior engineers to define technical standards and reliability patterns.
Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements through automated controls.
Partner with Product Management to align engineering priorities with business goals.
Communicate effectively with stakeholders on progress, risks, and trade-offs.
Track and report on key team metrics (velocity, quality, reliability, cost efficiency).
Identify opportunities for process optimization and operational readiness improvements.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
5 - 7 years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles, with 3+ years in leadership (team leadership, mentoring/coaching, etc.)
Proven ability to manage teams and deliver complex technical projects.
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), CI/CD, and observability.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM) and Policy as Code (OPA, Azure Policy).
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in high-availability SaaS environments.
Familiarity with performance engineering, cost optimization, and FinOps practices.
Certifications in cloud technologies or leadership development.
Core Competencies:
Technical Leadership: Sets direction, influences architecture, and drives adoption of best practices.
Operational Excellence: Champions reliability, automation, and proactive problem management.
Collaboration & Communication: Builds trust across teams and communicates clearly.
Mentorship & Coaching: Develops engineers through feedback and growth opportunities.
Strategic Thinking: Aligns technical decisions with business objectives.
Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.
This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.
The expected salary range for this role is between following values:
$155,000 and $233,000The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.
Suggested Skills:
Budget Management, Engineering Management, Innovation, Leadership, Performance Management (PM), Process Improvements, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management, Stakeholder ManagementTop Skills
What We Do
At Relativity, we build innovative and comprehensive tools for making sense of unstructured data. When more people can find the facts in mountains of documents, emails, and texts, more legal and data-centric matters can be resolved equitably. Join us in our mission to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it.
Relativity makes software to help users organize data, discover the truth and act on it. Its SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. Relativity has more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200.
Relativity does not tolerate racism or discrimination of any kind. We do not accept unfair treatment of any person or group of people. We’re committed to advocating for change to make our world a more inclusive, just place.
Why Work With Us
We believe in our team members and we want to help you own your career as part of a community of values-driven people who help customers around the world solve complex data challenges. At Relativity, you’ll take on challenging work, but you’ll also partner with talented colleagues and pursue plenty of learning and development opportunities.
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