{"id":132751,"url":"https://alion.io/job/disco-staff-software-engineer-2","title":"Staff Software Engineer","company":{"id":11250,"name":"DISCO","domain":"csdisco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/disco","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":6,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":68,"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Gurgaon, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":30000,"max_usd":78000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":19},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"gRPC","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kotlin","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":".NET","optional":true},{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":true},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"DataStore","optional":true},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":true},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":true},{"name":"Flask","optional":true},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":true},{"name":"Jetpack Compose","optional":true},{"name":"Kotlin Coroutines","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true},{"name":"Terraform","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-11-04T07:35:58Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T14:35:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":346,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":1,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":345},"description":"CS DISCO is aimed at redefining the landscape of legal technology. Ultimately, we seek to enable lawyers to achieve more efficient, data-oriented, and fact-based legal outcomes. We started our journey as a company by focusing on the crucial 'discovery' phase of the legal process. One of our offerings, Ediscovery, focuses on enabling legal teams to achieve these outcomes with incredible efficiency.\nThe massive data proliferation over the last decades has revealed the limitations of many legal technology products, impacting the efficiency of legal practices. At CS DISCO, we strive to provide solutions to the legal domain that are magical. To do so requires the processing of large volumes of data at petabyte scale, with high availability, while maximizing performance, minimizing operations cost, and also ensuring data security, privacy, and sovereignty.\nOur overarching mission is to create a unified technology platform for the practice of law. We envision a suite of products focused on delivering distinctly better legal outcomes with a minimum of human toil and cost. Our technology addresses the challenges of scale in data and enables legal teams to focus on the critical tasks that necessitate human legal judgment.\nWith a trajectory that has already seen substantial disruption in this market, our approach is underscored by a lawyer-inspired interface and a cloud-enabled technology platform, aiming for exemplary performance and cost efficiency. Thoughtful product planning and design are ingrained in our “product first” business ethos and culture, aligning with the broader objective of enhancing the practice of law through technology.\nYour Impact\nYou will be a key contributor and responsible for both hands-on technical work to improve existing systems as well as guiding long-term evolutions in this space. You’ll be successful by ensuring that the product and its backend systems meet current and future functional and scaling demands. Through your contributions towards both implementation and system design, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our software systems to meet the growing demands of our business, ensuring high availability and high performance.\nWhat You'll Do\nEngage actively in coding, code reviews, and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality output.\nLead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, high-performance, easily modifiable distributed systems.\nContinuously enhance system performance, focusing on meeting customer needs using the best practices for designing scalable distributed systems.\nShare knowledge and mentor junior engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.\nCollaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.\nWho You Are\n10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a focus on building large scale, highly responsive, fault tolerant services in SaaS and cloud-based applications.\nStrong experience with building highly reliable, highly responsive services backed by relational and non-relational data stores.\nDemonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) highly available, high-performance, distributed systems.\nProven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges.\nExperience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, but are not tightly coupled to a specific stack.\nYou’ve delivered cloud native software solutions (including designing, implementing, and operational excellence).\nExperience in implementing RESTful APIs for outward-facing services and using gRPC for efficient internal service-to-service communication.\nEven Better If You Have…\nExperience with designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems.\nFamiliarity with designing and developing from a security perspective with security best practices in system design and development.\nDemonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python and Kotlin/Java.\nStrategic level interaction with UI Developers.\nSome Of Our Technology Stack\nCloud Provider: AWS\nPersistence: Sql Datastore, Elasticsearch, and others\nContainer Orchestration: ECS, Kubernetes\nTransport: gRPC, GraphQL\nPersistence: Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, PostgresQL, Redis\nEvent Bus: Kafka\nLanguages / Frameworks: Kotlin / Netflix DGS, Python / Flask, .NET\nIaC: Terraform\n\nPerks of DISCO\nOpen, inclusive, and fun environment\nBenefits, including medical and dental insurance\nCompetitive salary plus discretionary bonus\nOpportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry\nGrowth opportunities throughout the company\nAbout DISCO\nDISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters. \nAt DISCO, we believe AI is a core enabler of how work gets done. All employees are expected to proactively adopt and responsibly use AI tools to drive efficiency, improve outcomes, and continuously evolve how they operate in their role.\nAre you ready to help us fulfill our mission to use technology to strengthen the rule of law? Join us! \nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5734,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Dental insurance","Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Legal AI","Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2025-11-04T07:35:58Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-09-09T09:45:45Z"},{"event":"reopen","at":"2026-09-22T11:07:16Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.503,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":345,"expected_fill_days":68,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/disco-staff-software-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/disco-staff-software-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T18:25:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3483,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":11250},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=11250"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdisco-staff-software-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdisco-staff-software-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdisco-staff-software-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/disco-staff-software-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdisco-staff-software-engineer-2"}]}