Senior Platform Engineer, Databases

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.

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone with deep database expertise (MySQL/Postgres), passionate about building robust, scalable database systems, and eager to tackle innovative challenges. As a key player, you’ll focus on optimizing, maintaining, and evolving our MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance, mission-critical applications. This is a unique opportunity to be exposed to diverse technologies and make a measurable impact.

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.

• We build, secure, and maintain the infrastructure and critical services that power Clio’s core applications

• We help Clions make data-driven decisions by providing observability and transparency for all of our environments

• We collaborate with the Clio product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and remove manual labor or friction points

• You’ll be responsible for preparing Clio’s database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability

• You will collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirements

• You will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databases and other data stores

• You will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases

• You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores

• You will work with the SRE team and help develop their MySQL knowledge
   

• Backend development experience

• MySql and/or PostgreSQL expertise

• Experience investigating and solving performance problems

• The ability to optimize query performance

• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)

• Demonstrate a keen interest in improving your craft by using AI

• You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team

• You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others

• You challenge and enable your team to take initiative, explore, and implement new improvements while balancing that work against satisfying the requirements as defined by the business

• You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate

• You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security
   

Don’t have all of those? The most important part of this job is that you approach new challenges with curiosity and a drive to apply what you learn to fixing root causes, not just symptoms. Deep curiosity and a desire to learn will help you succeed in this job, combined with a drive to help others by shipping code. 

• Experience using migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost

• Experience managing hosts with Puppet

• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience developing with Ruby or GoLang

• Experience managing AWS resources with CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible

• Experience scripting with BASH

• Experience using ProxySQL and the Percona toolkit

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

*Our salary bands are designed to reflect the range of skills and experience needed for the position and to allow room for growth at Clio. For experienced individuals, we typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

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.