Platform Engineer, Databases

Clio • Vancouver, BC

3d • $116,500 - $157,500 • Hybrid

About The Position

Clio is seeking a Platform Engineer, Databases to join their Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for an individual passionate about building robust, scalable database systems and eager to tackle innovative challenges. The engineer will focus on optimizing, maintaining, and evolving the company's MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance, mission-critical applications. This position offers exposure to diverse technologies and the opportunity to make a measurable impact. The role is available to candidates across Canada, excluding Quebec. Candidates local to Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto will be expected to be in the office a minimum of two days per week for Anchor Days.

Requirements

• 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.

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

Responsibilities

• Preparing Clio’s database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability.
• Collaboratively defining the roadmap to support business goals and satisfy application requirements.
• Investigating and solving performance problems with MySQL databases and other data stores.
• Scoping, defining, and collaborating with developers to implement automation and processes that power the reliability of Clio’s data stores.

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary
• Top-tier health benefits
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.
• $2000 annual counseling benefit
• RRSP matching
• RESP contribution
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed