Director of Engineering, Internal Platform

Clio; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 214,400 - 321,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

RRSP matching

RESP contribution

Counseling benefit

Job summary

Clio, a global leader in legal AI technology, seeks an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a secure, highly available internal platform. This role empowers Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking velocity while balancing safety and security.

You will supervise, mentor, and collaborate with managers and ICs, partner with internal tooling teams, and drive an engineering culture that values diversity, excellence, and rapid delivery.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leader with hands-on coding experience.
• Experience defining long-term platform roadmaps for scale.
• Proven track record mentoring high-performing teams.
• Strong focus on security, reliability and observability.
• Experience with LLM tooling and frontier models desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of Clio's internal platform.
• mentor engineering managers and individual contributors daily.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to evolve internal strategy for LLM use.
• Ensure security, performance, reliability, and change velocity of all tools.
• Partner with recruiting to hire top engineering talent.

Skills

Engineering leadership

LLM tooling

Strategic roadmap

Mentoring

Security mindset

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 are seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform at Clio. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and “lead from the front” by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems.The internal platform encompasses the infrastructure, tooling, observability, controls, and shared capabilities Clions depend on to build, ship, and operate internal workflows. It will form the foundation for business transformation as Clio scales internal tooling and LLM usage. This broadly-scoped role will help define its own boundaries while responsibly balancing high velocity with maintaining the guardrails required to enforce safety and security across all use cases.What You’ll Work On:Author, review, and ship both code and infrastructure-as-code to create and maintain Clio’s internal platform.Analyze Clio's platform use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and infrastructure gaps to deliver impactful solutions that elevate operational excellence.Work with senior leadership across the organization to evolve our internal strategy for LLM use and build the necessary guardrails and observability to empower it.Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors who are in the thick of it every day.Partner with Clions and our internal tooling teams to support them in ensuring all of our internal tools meet a high bar for security, performance, reliability, availability and change velocity.Train and advocate for the responsible use of the internal platform across Clio.Work closely with the recruiting/people team to actively recruit and hire top talent to support Clio’s ambitious growth plans for our infrastructure and development teams.About You:Experienced senior engineering leader who is still comfortable pushing code.Eager adopter of LLM tooling and experienced user of frontier models and related technologies (MCP, agentic harnesses, agent guardrails).Experienced at managing across and up the organization as you define, communicate, and champion a long-term strategic roadmap for our internal platform to unlock organizational velocity and scale.Adept at managing and mentoring high-performing teams, nurturing talent, and guiding individuals toward professional growth and development.Proven track record of maintaining services and systems.Experienced in crafting long-term strategies and managing technical roadmaps that pave the way for future growth.Capable of running agile organizations at scale and with a sense of urgency to deliver quality software to solve customer problems.Demonstrated experience in promoting positive culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization.This role is a backfill for an existing position.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 insuranceHybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week.$2000 annual counseling benefitRRSP matching and RESP contributionClioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 yearsThe expected salary range* for this role is $214,400 to $268,000 to $321,600 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.In addition, this role is eligible for variable pay that is based on company performance, with actual payout amounts calculated and paid on a quarterly basis.*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) & AccessibilityOur 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/careersWe'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.