Senior Data Platform Engineer

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3 Locations
In-Office or Remote
157K-213K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Legal Tech • Software
The Role
Designs and operates scalable security logging infrastructure, data lakes, ingestion pipelines, and multi-tier storage for enterprise-scale observability. Responsibilities include architecting ELK and OpenSearch environments, optimizing ingestion and queries, implementing infrastructure as code, developing APIs and integrations, managing retention and costs, capacity planning, and supporting disaster recovery. The role partners with security leadership on platform strategy and mentors engineers while enabling analytics and detection engineering across cloud environments.
Summary Generated by Built In

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. 

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Summary:

We are currently seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join our rapidly growing Security team and help grow our Logging Engineering team. This role is for someone passionate about building scalable logging architectures, designing robust data pipelines, and driving security-focused logging automation at scale. You will help lead, support, and implement the technical architecture for our logging infrastructure while making a tangible impact on our security observability.

This role is available to candidates across Canada. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum two days per week for our Anchor Days.

What your team does

Are you someone who's always probing and asking why, someone who enjoys architecting elegant solutions to complex data pipeline challenges? If so, we have a spot for you on Clio's Logging Engineering team! We are looking for candidates to help design and evolve our logging platform architecture, supporting the team with technical leadership for security logging overall. If you have a strong data engineering background with a passion for security and experience building enterprise-scale logging platforms, then we want to talk to you.

A day in the life might look like:
  • Contributing to the design and architecture of scalable logging infrastructure including data lakes, security lakes, and multi-tier storage strategies

  • Building and optimizing high-throughput log ingestion pipelines using streaming technologies and cloud-native services

  • Architecting ELK stack deployments, OpenSearch clusters, and hybrid cloud logging solutions

  • Designing data retention, lifecycle management, and cost optimization strategies for petabyte-scale log storage

  • Partnering with the security team lead to develop the logging platform roadmap and technical vision

  • Building Infrastructure as Code for logging infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and disaster recovery

  • Optimizing query performance across multiple data stores and implement efficient data partitioning strategies

  • Designing API and integration layers for log data access, enabling self-service analytics and detection engineering

  • Contributing to capacity planning, performance tuning, and architectural decisions for the logging platform

  • Mentoring engineering team members on logging best practices, data architecture, and platform operations

What you may have:
  • Proven Senior-level expertise building enterprise-scale logging and data ingestion systems, typically gained over 5+ years of relevant experience

  • Data architecture experience designing data lakes, lake houses, and multi-tier storage architectures for log data

  • Mastery of big data technologies and processing systems including but not limited to Splunk, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch & the ELK Stack, Map Reduce, Hadoop, Cassandra, and other comparable data ingestion & query systems

  • Experience in Data Modelling using one or more methodologies like Kimbal, Inmon, or Data Vault for data-at-rest schema normalization

  • Streaming data expertise with Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Azure Event Hubs, or similar real-time ingestion platforms

  • Cloud storage architecture experience with AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, GCS, and intelligent data tiering strategies

  • Performance optimization skills for high-volume data ingestion, indexing strategies, and query optimization

  • Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar for logging infrastructure automation

  • Data pipeline engineering experience with Apache Spark, Flink, or cloud-native data processing services

  • API and integration design for enabling secure access to log data across multiple consumer applications

  • Monitoring and observability expertise for logging platform health, performance metrics, and capacity planning

  • An AI first mentality, where your decision making, coding, and throughput are amplified through your AI usage

Serious bonus points if you have:
  • Programming proficiency in Python, Ruby, Go, or Scala for custom logging pipeline development and automation

  • Experience with SQL Data Warehouse Dimensional Modelling using Kimball, Inmon, Business Data Vault or other modelling techniques.

  • Kubernetes and Container encapsulation for logging architecture within cloud-native application systems.

  • Security-focused logging experience with SIEM integration, security data lakes, and compliance-driven data retention

  • Multi-cloud logging architecture designing consistent logging platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP

  • Data governance expertise implementing data classification, privacy controls, and regulatory compliance for log data

  • Advanced analytics platforms experience with Splunk Enterprise, Sumo Logic, or other enterprise logging platforms

  • Cost optimization expertise for large-scale data storage, implementing intelligent archiving and data lifecycle policies

  • Technical leadership experience mentoring teams, setting architectural standards, and driving technical strategy

This role is a backfill for an existing position.

What you will find here:

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.
 

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

  • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance 

  • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, London, New York City and Sydney) to be in office min. twice per week. 

  • Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.

  • $2000 annual counseling benefit

  • RRSP matching and RESP contribution 

  • Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

The expected salary range for this role is $157,300 to $212,800 CAD. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility 

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers

We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of relevant experience building enterprise-scale logging and data ingestion systems
  • Experience designing data lakes, lakehouses, and multi-tier storage architectures for log data
  • Expertise with big data and logging technologies such as Splunk, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, MapReduce, Hadoop, or Cassandra
  • Data modeling experience using Kimball, Inmon, Data Vault, or similar methodologies
  • Streaming data experience with Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Azure Event Hubs, or similar platforms
  • Cloud storage architecture experience with AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, GCS, and data tiering strategies
  • Performance optimization experience for high-volume ingestion, indexing, and query systems
  • Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
  • Data pipeline engineering experience with Apache Spark, Flink, or cloud-native processing services
  • Experience designing APIs and integrations for secure log data access
  • Monitoring and observability expertise for platform health, metrics, and capacity planning
  • Programming proficiency in Python, Ruby, Go, or Scala
  • SQL data warehouse dimensional modeling experience
  • Kubernetes and containerization experience
  • Security-focused logging, SIEM integration, security data lakes, and compliance-driven retention experience
  • Multi-cloud logging architecture experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Data governance experience involving classification, privacy controls, and regulatory compliance
  • Experience with Splunk Enterprise, Sumo Logic, or other enterprise logging platforms
  • Cost optimization experience for large-scale storage and lifecycle policies
  • Technical leadership and mentoring experience
  • AI-first approach to decision-making, coding, and productivity

Clio Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clio and has not been reviewed or approved by Clio.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Public salary bands on job postings and a regional pay‑transparency report signal clear ranges and equity review practices. Pay‑range transparency is described as global, with internal ranges shared company‑wide.
  • Healthcare Strength Health, dental, and vision coverage are emphasized, with U.S. healthcare called out as strong and Canada‑based employees receiving a dedicated counseling benefit. Wellness programming and an Employee and Family Assistance Program complement core medical coverage.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Flexible paid time off with a stated four‑week minimum and paid volunteering time are part of the standard package. Parental leave is offered for birthing and non‑birthing parents.

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The Company
HQ: Burnaby, BC
889 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

Clio is the undisputed leader in cloud-based legal technology offering practice management, CRM and client intake software. Clio enables lawyers to be more client-centered and has earned the most 5 star reviews, the approval of over 65 bar associations and law societies around the world, and a global customers base of 150,000. Clio enables law firms to deliver better client experiences through cloud-based practice management, CRM and client intake software. Clio was the first to bring cloud-based legal practice management software to market, and has been leading the industry since 2008 with the first client-centered suite of cloud-based law firm solutions, the Legal Trends Report, and the Clio Cloud Conference, which is now the most widely attended legal tech conference in the industry. Clio is more than software. Clio is the only provider truly invested in the success of you and your clients. Clio’s team of client and firm success specialists combine their expertise on the Legal Trends Report, with their knowledge of Clio’s leading cloud-based legal practice management, CRM and client intake software to help lawyers run results-driven law firms using real time insights. Founded in Vancouver, Canada, Clio employs over 500 staff across five global offices and has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, a Deloitte Fast 50 company, and one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures.

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