Platform Engineer, Databases

Summary

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’re looking for a Platform Engineer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team, focusing on optimizing and maintaining our MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance applications.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• Drive to help others by shipping code
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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
• 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
• Drive to help others by shipping code

Nice to Haves

• 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

Benefits

• 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