Engineering Manager, DevOps

Your Impact

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. Our initial offering, Ediscovery, focuses on enabling legal teams to achieve these outcomes with incredible efficiency.
The massive data proliferation over the last decades has revealed the limitations of many legal technology products, impacting the efficiency of legal practices. At 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, while maximizing performance & minimizing operations cost, and serving this data to users intuitively with fluid, highly responsive consumer-grade experiences.

Our 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.

With 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.

 What You'll Do

• Guide your team to deliver value pragmatically and productively while building architecturally sound, well-crafted, secure, testable, interoperable, and easily modifiable systems.
• Foster operational excellence, improving the performance, availability, and scalability of your systems, and your staff’s ability to consistently improve them.
• Evaluate team architectural designs for completeness and coherence with requirements.
• Build an effective team by hiring and developing top talent, instituting and evolving team practices, and fostering a culture of respect, cooperation, dependability, ownership, and gratitude.
• Own the technical backlog for areas such as cloud superstructure, paved path runtimes, build / deployment, and observability.
• Represent the team and charter to internal stakeholders, leadership, and the business.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience including prior hands-on experience developing and operating distributed systems in the cloud.
• 3+ years of engineering management including experience hiring, managing, and growing engineers up to principal level
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, including a strong understanding of CloudFormation, Terraform, and CodePipeline.
• 6+ years of experience in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• 6+ years of experience with Github, CI/CD platforms, and container technologies like Docker.
• Extensive experience in automating deployment/scaling of containerized applications, and Infrastructure As Code (IaC) practices.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) high-availability, high-performance, distributed cloud infrastructure and platforms. Your proficiency extends to ensuring seamless deployment, scaling, and management of our cloud resources.
• Strong knowledge of Linux system administration and automation.

Even Better If You Have…

• Technical Proficiency:
• Experience with Windows Servers, ASP.NET Deployments (WebDeploy), PowerShell scripting, and systems integration.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
• Leadership:
• Proven experience in leading technical discussions, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to drive complex projects to completion.
• Ability to articulate and advocate for best practices in cloud infrastructure management and DevOps processes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Innovation: A track record of driving continuous improvement, identifying and leveraging emerging cloud technologies to solve complex business challenges.
• Learning & Development: A commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest in cloud platforms, big data technologies, and DevOps practices.
• Polyglot Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python. 

DISCO's Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider: AWS
• CI/CD: Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, CodeDeploy, GitHub, Artifactory, HashiCorp Consul
• Observability: ELK Stack, Data Dog, New Relic, Sentry.io
• Programming Languages: Python, Bash

  Perks of DISCO

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical and dental insurance
• Competitive salary plus discretionary bonus
• Opportunity to be a part of a startup that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company