Platform Engineer, Databases

Clio; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 119,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Hybrid work

Flexible time off

Counseling benefit

RRSP matching

RESP contribution

Job summary

Clio is seeking a Platform Engineer, Databases to optimize, maintain, and evolve our MySQL infrastructure for high performance and reliability. You will partner with the Systems Engineering team to define roadmaps, tackle latency, and automate data-store reliability across the platform.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on experience with MySQL performance tuning, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud tooling, plus a passion for building scalable database systems in a fast-growing company.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and solving performance problems.
• Ability to optimize query performance.
• Willingness to develop MySQL knowledge within the SRE team.
• A portfolio of successful projects and lessons learned from failures.
• Curiosity and drive to fix root causes and ship reliable code.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Clio’s database infrastructure for future scale and reliability.
• Define roadmaps to support business goals and satisfy application requirements.
• Investigate and resolve performance issues in MySQL databases and other data stores.
• Collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes for data store reliability.

Skills

MySQL tuning

Query optimization

SRE practices

Database infrastructure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

ProxySQL

Percona toolkit

Puppet

Bash

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’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)

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

This is for a net new role.

#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 $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 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.