Clio - Senior Database Engineer

• You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team;
• You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others;
• You 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;
• You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate;
• You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security

What you should have:

• 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
• Experience using ProxySQL and the percona toolkit
• Be prepared to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to rest of the SRE team
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects).

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.

Clio is looking for a Senior Database Engineer to join the team that builds and manages our MySQL databases and related systems.

We're building a cross-Canada, distributed team that forms the foundation of Clio's engineering organization:

• 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
• You will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases;
• You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores;
• You'll raise the bar by spreading database knowledge to your team;
• Elevate and educate our engineering processes within Clio