Staff Software Developer, Databases

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote, Hybrid (Expect in-office minimum twice per week on Anchor Days if local to Burnaby, Calgary, or Toronto)
• Job Type: Full Time
• Salary: Not specified

Clio is a global leader transforming the legal experience. We are seeking a Staff Software Developer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone passionate about building innovative solutions and tackling new challenges while making a significant impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada and the US.

Requirements

• MySQL experience is a requirement.
• Passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies.
• Equally energized by both technical work and contributing to team career growth.

Responsibilities

• Discover, triage, and solve difficult performance and scalability problems in Clio’s core applications and databases.
• Iterate and evolve infrastructure, data schema, application code, and products to address complex scalability issues.
• Drive the current and future architecture of Clio, teaching engineering teams 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 Clio’s MySQL databases.
• Work on transitioning, maintaining, and modernizing the database infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Use experience to 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 the reliability of Clio’s datastores.
• Participate in architectural discussions to help shape the future direction of backend services.
• Elevate and educate our engineering processes within Clio.

Company Information

Clio is building a distributed team forming the foundation of its engineering organization. Key areas of focus include:

• Building, securing, and maintaining the infrastructure and critical services that power Clio’s core applications.
• Providing observability and transparency for all environments, helping Clions make data-driven decisions.
• Collaborating with product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and remove friction points.