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.
We’re looking for a Software Developer, 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.
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
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
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
Don’t have all of those? The most important part of this job is that you 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 will help you succeed in this job, combined with a 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
#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 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
*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 typically hire at or around the midpoint of the band. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Those who are new to the role may join below the midpoint and develop their skills over time. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility
Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers
Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.