Platform Engineer, Databases

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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’re looking for a Platform Engineer, 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.

• Build, secure, and maintain the infrastructure and critical services that power Clio’s core applications
• Help Clions make data‑driven decisions by providing observability and transparency for all of our environments
• Collaborate with the Clio product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and remove manual labour or friction points

• 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 our MySQL databases and other data stores
• 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 MySQL knowledge to the rest of the SRE team
• A portfolio of successful projects (and 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 Cloud Formation
• Bash
• Proxy
  
  SQL and the Percona toolkit

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.

• 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 minimum 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 $116,500 to $157,500 CAD. The final offer will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

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.

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