Platform Engineer, Databases

Clio; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 116,500 - 157,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with health benefits

Flexible time off policy

$2000 annual counseling benefit

RRSP matching and RESP contribution

Clioversary recognition program

Job summary

Clio is seeking a Platform Engineer, Databases in Vancouver to optimize and maintain MySQL infrastructure. This position involves preparing robust database systems for future challenges, resolving performance issues, and implementing automation for reliability. Candidates should demonstrate a strong foundation in MySQL and a keen interest in using AI to enhance their craft. Clio offers competitive compensation in a hybrid work environment that promotes diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• You have a portfolio of successful projects and a collection of lessons learned from failures.
• You are eager to learn and improve your craft.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Clio’s database infrastructure for scale and reliability.
• Define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirements.
• Investigate and solve performance problems with database systems.
• Implement automation and processes to ensure reliability.

Skills

Experience investigating and solving performance problems

Ability to optimize query performance

Interest in AI

Tools

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Puppet

Ruby

Golang

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bash

ProxySQL

Percona toolkit

Job description

About Clio

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’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)
• 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

Benefits

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.

• 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 minimum 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

Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $116,500 to $137,000 to $157,500 CAD. There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.

• 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) & 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.