Relativity’s talent-first focus “means that job architecture, expectations and growth are prioritized,” according to Chowdhury, who leads strategy on Relativity’s AI-powered communication surveillance platform, Relativity Trace. Also in the front seat: work-life balance. Chowdhury’s team committed to a minimum of five discretionary days off per quarter on top of on-demand and project-based time off.

Relativity engineers are in the middle of a breakup, but there are no tears here. The team is parting ways with older technologies to introduce tools like Apache Spark, Python and Kubernetes. Ball said the upgrade will help them horizontally scale and be more extensible as datasets and the number of data sources are growing rapidly within Relativity’s system. Goodbye, batch jobs, and hello, large scale ingestion!