Platform Engineer, Databases

Themis Solutions Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 119,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Migrations tools experience

Puppet management

Docker and Kubernetes

Ruby or Golang

Terraform or CloudFormation

Bash

ProxySQL with Percona toolkit

Job summary

Themis Solutions Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer, Databases to join Clio’s Systems Engineering, Production team across Canada. You’ll focus on optimizing, maintaining, and evolving our MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance, mission-critical applications.

You will collaborate to define roadmaps, solve performance problems, and implement automation that powers reliable data stores. Candidates in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto or remote across Canada are welcome; in-office anchor days

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and solving performance problems.
• Ability to optimize query performance.
• Readiness to work with and develop MySQL knowledge within the SRE team.
• A portfolio of successful projects and lessons learned from failures.
• A keen interest in improving craft using AI.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Clio’s database infrastructure for scale and reliability.
• Collaborate to define roadmaps to support business goals and requirements.
• Investigate and solve MySQL performance issues and other data stores.
• Collaborate with developers to implement automation for reliability of data stores.

Skills

Performance troubleshooting

MySQL optimization

MySQL knowledge share

DevOps collaboration

Portfolio of projects

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Puppet

Bash

ProxySQL

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 .

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

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 You’ll 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 $119,000 to $161,000 CAD. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated todiversity, 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

At Clio, we’re creating a human and high performing culture. That means you’ll be encouraged and supported to do your best work. Find out what keeps us grounded. Learn more.

Every day I am surrounded by a group that keeps me laughing, but also inspires me with their hard work and ingenuity. Everyone here goes out of their way to help each other learn and grow.