Clio
Posted 3mo ago

Platform Engineer, Databases

Clio
Toronto or Vancouver or Calgary or Canada
$117k-$158k/yrHybridFull Time
Responsibilities
  • optimize databases
  • investigate performance
  • define roadmap
Requirements
  • Experience optimizing and troubleshooting MySQL databases
  • Performance tuning
  • Automation, and working with data stores
  • Strong coding and collaboration
  • Eager to learn and apply AI
Technical tools mentioned
MySQLDockerKubernetesPuppetTerraformCloudFormationBashProxySQLPercona toolkitRubyGolangAWS

Job description

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.

Summary:

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.

What Your Team Does:

  • 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

What You'll Work On:

  • 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

What You Should Have:

  • 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. 

Serious bonus points if you have experience with:

  • 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, 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

    The expected salary range* for this role is $116,500 to $137,000 to $157,500 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.


    *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

    We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

    Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.

    About Clio

    Cloud-based legal practice management software and AI solutions.

    Year founded
    2008
    Employees
    2350
    Organization type
    Private
    Latest investment
    Raised $500.00M Series G (2025) — led by New Enterprise Associates
    Subsidiaries
    Headquarters
    CA

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