Lead Distributed Data Platform Engineer

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9 Locations
In-Office
232K-348K Annually
Senior level
Legal Tech • Software
Organize data. Discover the truth. Act on it.
The Role
Lead a team of data platform engineers to design scalable data pipelines and analytical workflows while driving architectural decisions and ensuring software engineering best practices.
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Job Overview

We are building a specialized team focused on enabling advanced analytics and reporting capabilities across our internal data ecosystem. As a Tech/Team Lead, you will combine deep technical expertise with leadership skills to guide a team in designing and maintaining data platforms that integrate modern lakehouse technologies, distributed compute frameworks, and cloud-native services to support diverse analytical use cases and enterprise-scale insights. 
You will lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure delivery of secure, reliable, and scalable solutions. This role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration, and governance best practices while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. 
Relativity’s scale and breadth provide significant opportunities for rich data exploration and insights. Our data infrastructure ensures that vast datasets remain accessible, secure, and compliant, while enabling innovation across the organization. We are making substantial investments in data lake technology and distributed systems to support future growth and advanced analytics. 

Job Description and Requirements

Your Role in Action 

  • Lead and mentor a team of data platform engineers, promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, and professional growth. 

  • Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems andlakehouseplatforms using Spark, Delta Lake, and Iceberg. 

  • Oversee design and implementation of scalable data pipelines and analytics workflows. 

  • Ensure adherence to software engineering best practices: clean code, modular design, CI/CD, automated testing, and code reviews. 

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions with businessobjectivesand analytics needs. 

  • Champion governance, observability, and compliance frameworks across all data platforms. 

  • Manage performance tuning, scalability strategies, and cost optimization in cloud-native environments. 

  • Facilitate architecture reviews and contribute to design decisions for fault-tolerant, future-ready systems. 

  • Communicate effectively with leadership and cross-functional teams to provide updates, resolve blockers, and ensuretimelydelivery. 

 

Core Requirements: 

  • Proven experience leading technical teams in data engineering or platform development. 

  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL; hands-on experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing. 

  • Expertisein Delta Lake and/or Apache Iceberg forlakehousearchitecture. 

  • Familiarity withdbt, Databricks, and Snowflake for analytics workflows. 

  • Solid understanding of software engineering principles, CI/CD, and automated testing. 

  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code tools. 

  • Understanding ofperformance tuning, scalability strategies, and cost optimization for large-scale systems. 

  • Strong communicationand stakeholder management skills. 

  • Ability to drive architectural decisions and mentor engineers. 

Nice to Have: 

  • Exposure toevent-driven architectures and advanced analytics platforms. 

  • Experience enabling self-service analytics for internal stakeholders. 

  • Experience in any of the following languages: Java, Scala, Rust. 

  • Exposure to service mesh and advanced orchestration patterns. 

Relativity is a diverse workplace with different skills and life experiences—and we love and celebrate those differences. We believe that employees are happiest when they're empowered to be their full, authentic selves, regardless how you identify.

Benefit Highlights:

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans

Parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers

Flexible work arrangements

Two, week-long company breaks per year

Unlimited time off

Long-term incentive program

Training investment program

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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:

232 000 and 348 000PLN

The 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:

Documentations, Innovation, Leadership, Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management, Technical Knowledge, Troubleshooting

Top Skills

Apache Iceberg
Spark
Databricks
Dbt
Delta Lake
Docker
Kubernetes
Python
Snowflake
SQL
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,550 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

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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