Platform Engineer, Databases

About the role

We're looking for a Platform Engineer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone 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, excluding Quebec. 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: 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 labour or friction points

Responsibilities

• 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 scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power the reliability of Clio's data stores
• What You Should Have:
• Experience investigating and solving performance problems
• The ability to optimize query performance
• Readiness to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to the rest of the SRE team
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
• A keen interest in improving your craft using AI
• Serious bonus points if you have experience with:
• Migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost
• Managing hosts with Puppet
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Ruby or Golang
• AWS resources with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Bash
• ProxySQL and the Percona toolkit
• #LI-Remote
• 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 $116,500 to $137,000 to $157,500 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.
• Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Benefits

Additional Information

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 .

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