Staff Software Developer, Back End Infrastructure and Databases

Job title:

Staff Software Developer, Back End Infrastructure and Databases

Company

Clio

Job description

is more than just a tech company–we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by while .Summary:We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer, Back End Infrastructure and Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone who is passionate about building innovative solutions and being exposed to new challenges and technologies while making an impact. This role is available to candidates across Canada.The Staff Software Developer will be responsible for discovering, triaging, and solving difficult performance and scalability problems in Clio’s core applications and databases. They will primarily be iterating and evolving our infrastructure, data schema, application code, and products in order to solve complicated scalability issues with a goal of achieving high performance, high scalability, and exceptional reliability. By engaging across the organization, you’ll help drive our current and future architecture and teach our engineering teams how to implement scalable patterns, particularly at the RDBMS layer.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 reliabilityYou will collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals, and satisfy application requirementsYou will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databasesWork on transitioning, maintaining, and modernizing our database infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalabilityYou will use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize database queries, integrate best practices for schema design and migrationYou will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastoresParticipate in architectural discussions to help shape the future direction of our backend servicesYou’ll raise the bar by spreading database knowledge to your team;Elevate and educate our engineering processes within ClioWhat you may have:You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your teamYou have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in othersYou 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 businessYou believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocateYou devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data securityWhat 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 environmentExperience investigating and solving performance problems with MySQL databasesSolid understanding of database design, data modeling, and schema managementFamiliarity with SQL optimization techniques and best practices.Experience using ProxySQL and the percona toolkitBe prepared to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to rest of the SRE teamA 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.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, and Dublin) to be in office min. once per week on our Anchor Day.Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year.$2000 annual counseling benefitRRSP matching and RESP contributionClioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years​The full salary range* for this role is $158,400 to $198,000 to $237,600 CAD.Please note there are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.*We aim to hire all candidates between the minimum and the midpoint of the full salary range. We reserve the midpoint to the maximum of the salary band for internal employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on individual experience and skillset of the candidate. Please note there are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency.Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & AccessibilityOur team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to . 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

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Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:44:51 GMT

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