Senior Platform Engineer, Databases

About the role

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. 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 labor 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 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
• What You Should Have:
• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Serious bonus points if you have:
• 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
• 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 $149,600 to $176,000 to $202,400 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.
• *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 typica

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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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