Staff Platform Engineer - Platform Team

Posted 21 Days Ago
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Malmö, SWE
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Legal Tech • Software
Collaborative AI for exceptional lawyers
The Role
Build and maintain core infrastructure and reliability abstractions for engineering teams. Improve observability, alerting, fault tolerance, performance, and hyperscale infrastructure. Partner with teams on SRE practices, monitor systems proactively, support incident response and post-incident learning, and manage infrastructure primarily on Azure with AI deployments across AWS and GCP.
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About Us

Legora is redefining how legal work gets done. Not built for lawyers, built with them. We work alongside the world’s best legal teams, who expect excellence, precision, and speed, and we hold ourselves to the same bar.
Our AI-native workspace lets legal professionals move faster, think more clearly, and operate with sharper precision. By analysing thousands of documents in minutes and powering end-to-end workflows, we cut through complexity, teams can focus on what matters: judgment, strategy, and outcomes.
2,100+ customers across 80+ countries trust us, including Cleary Gottlieb, Goodwin, Linklaters, White & Case, Dentons, and Barclays. We’ve scaled to $200M+ in ARR, with teams across Europe, North America and APAC, and continue to expand through acquisitions including Qura, Walter AI, Graceview, Cadastral, and Wexler.
We partner with world-class performers: including Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Ludvig Åberg (and his caddie), and campaigns featuring Jude Law.
Joining Legora means three things.

  • We lean in: ownership over titles, outcomes over intentions.

  • We fight for excellence: high standards, direct, ego-free feedback.

  • We grow together: as a team and with our customers.

Mission before ego. Everyone contributes. No one coasts.

If you’re driven by impact, pace, and raising the bar. This is the place.

The role

As a Staff Platform Engineer at Legora, you’ll join an enabling team focused on making life easier for developers. Your mission: improve reliability, boost performance, and build a rock-solid platform that scales with the company. You'll work hands-on across infrastructure and backend systems, helping teams ship faster, safer, and smarter.
What you will be doing:

  • Build the core infrastructure and reliability abstractions that all our engineering teams use

  • Sit with all teams and help them structure their SRE efforts: observability, alerting, fault tolerance and reliability

  • Proactively monitor our infrastructure and develop it for hyperscale and reliability

  • Contribute to incident response and post-incident learning

  • Work with Pulumi on primarily Azure, but also AI deployments on AWS and GCP

Who you are

  • You have years of experience as a backend engineer but have solid infrastructure, observability, monitoring know-how

  • Experience with Kubernetes

  • Experience with Pulumi (preferred) or similar IaC tools like AWS CDK, Terraform

  • But most importantly, you are someone who

    • “Gets stuff done” and understands building a $10bn company isn’t always glamorous and takes hard work and long hours

    • Proactively and independently solves the most burning problems

    • Strives in a fast-paced environment where the answers aren’t always clear and processes are few

Legora is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Legora, we believe great teams are built on diversity of thought and experience. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive, high-performance culture where everyone can do their best work. We welcome people of all backgrounds and don’t discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Skills Required

  • Years of experience as a backend engineer
  • Infrastructure, observability, and monitoring experience
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with Pulumi
  • Experience with AWS CDK or Terraform as comparable infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Ability to proactively and independently solve complex problems
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with limited processes

Legora Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is broad, with multiple medical plan options (Aetna/Kaiser), dental and vision, mental-health benefits, One Medical access, and life plus short/long-term disability.
  • Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits include generous parental leave, Maven Clinic access, a Dependent Care FSA, and One Medical for employees and dependents; some locations also note an onsite Mother’s Room.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards, with a generous stock‑option program and company equity listed in multiple postings and workplace profiles.

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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
900 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Legora is the agentic operating system for legal work, supporting lawyers in research, review, and drafting across complex matters. It is used by more than 130,000 legal professionals at more than 2,000 leading law firms and in-house legal teams across over 80 markets.

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