Senior Software Developer, Databases
About the position Clio is more than just a tech company-we are a global leader that is transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice. We're looking for a Senior Software Developer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone with deep expertise in MySQL, 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. Responsibilities • Prepare Clio's database infrastructure for the future in terms of scale and reliability. • Collaboratively define the roadmap to support business goals and satisfy application requirements. • Investigate and solve performance problems with MySQL databases and other data stores. • Guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases. • Scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio's datastores. • Work with the SRE team and help develop their MySQL knowledge. Requirements • Backend development experience. • MySQL expertise. • Experience investigating and solving performance problems. • Ability to optimize query performance. • A portfolio of successful projects and lessons learned from failed projects. Nice-to-haves • Experience using migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost. • Experience managing hosts with Puppet. • Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes. • Experience developing with Ruby or GoLang. • Experience managing AWS resources with CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible. • Experience scripting with BASH. • Experience using ProxySQL and the Percona toolkit. Benefits • Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance. • Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions to be in office minimum 2 days per week on our Anchor Days. • 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. Apply tot his job