Clio-posted 4 months ago
$165,300 - $247,900/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Vancouver, WA
1,001-5,000 employees
Publishing Industries

Clio is more than just a tech company-we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice. We're looking for a Staff Software Developer, Back End Infrastructure and Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada and the US. If you are local to one of our hubs (Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto) you will be expected to be in office minimum once per week on one of our Anchor Days. The Staff Software Developer will be responsible for discovering, triaging, and solving difficult performance and scalability problems in Clio's core applications and databases. They will primarily be iterating and evolving our infrastructure, data schema, application code, and products in order to solve complicated scalability issues with a goal of achieving high performance, high scalability, and exceptional reliability. By engaging across the organization, you'll help drive our current and future architecture and teach our engineering teams how to implement scalable patterns, particularly at the RDBMS layer.

  • Prepare Clio's database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability
  • Collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals and satisfy application requirements
  • Investigate and solve performance problems with MySQL databases
  • Transition, maintain, and modernize our database infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Guide development teams on how to improve and optimize database queries, integrate best practices for schema design and migration
  • Scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio's datastores
  • Participate in architectural discussions to help shape the future direction of our backend services
  • Spread database knowledge to your team
  • Elevate and educate our engineering processes within Clio
  • Hands-on technical expertise with building and configuring MySQL database servers; Bonus points for understanding how to do this in a cloud environment
  • Experience investigating and solving performance problems with MySQL databases
  • Solid understanding of database design, data modeling, and schema management
  • Familiarity with SQL optimization techniques and best practices
  • Experience using ProxySQL and the percona toolkit
  • Prepared 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)
  • Equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
  • Strong opinions that are weakly held, fostering that same attitude in others
  • 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
  • Believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
  • Devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security
  • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance
  • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Dublin) to be in office min. once per week on our Anchor Day
  • 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
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