Database Reliability Engineer, Filevine
$140-180k
+ Equity
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
Job no longer available
Operating intelligence for modern legal practice
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$140-180k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the way legal work gets done for law practitioners and their clients.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience maintaining and optimizing large production databases
- Expert Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL troubleshooting skills
- Expert in tuning queries generated from ORM’s
- Expert T-SQL skills, and any common scripting language
- Experience with Powershell or Python
- Familiarity with object oriented programming languages, ideally C#
- Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with AWS RDS and DMS
- Shows mastery working independently on assigned projects as well as mentor and train others exemplarily
- Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, AWS, Git, GitLab, Octopus, Terraform and CI/CD Tools
- Ability to work independently on assigned projects or with other team members as requested
- Ability to complete work assignments efficiently and productively
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Microsoft MVP or other Microsoft SQL Server Database or PostgreSQL Certification preferred
- B.S., M.S. in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
What the job involves
- Join Filevine as a Database Reliability Engineer and play a key role in scaling, optimizing, and ensuring the performance of our high-volume SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments
- You'll lead with technical excellence, collaborate across teams, and mentor others—all while working on complex, meaningful challenges that power a critical legal tech platform
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgement by being responsible for:
- Performance tuning of Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, optimizing at the server, database, and query levels
- Scaling and monitoring of Databases
- Assist teams in designing, building databases and schemas
- Use, develop, and build tools and alerts for monitoring database performance, reliability, and maintenance plans
- Provide documentation for developers and internal staff on database-related topics
- Triage escalated production issues with cross-functional teams
- Work within assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers, helping to define team development and engineering best practices, and leading the teams in implementation of these best practices
- Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide 24/7/365 database reliability support
- Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences
- Analyze and improve the scalability and performance of high-volume, information rich web applications
- Participate in lively engineering debate, making a strong and logical case for well considered opinions, while appreciating the opinions of peers
Our take
Law firms, corporate legal teams and government agencies are under increasing pressure to handle more work, more data and tighter timelines, all without increasing costs. As a result, demand is growing for legal technology that can automate routine tasks, organize complex information and also help laywers work faster and more accurately. AI has become a key part of this change, and today it's hard to find interest in legal tech that doesn't have AI at its core.
Filevine is a good example of how this shift is playing out, Founded in 2014, the company began as a software-as-a-service platform helping legal teams manage cases, documents, billing and payments in one place. Over time though, Filevine has expanded into what it now calls a Legal Operating Intelligence System, bringing intelligence into the full lifecycle of a legal matter. And in recent years, the focus has moved strongly toward AI, as most of the company's revenue comes from its AI products rather than from its original software.
This growth shows just how well its aligned with where the market is heading, and with $400M from major investors, it continues to expand its platform, adding AI tools that connect across legal workflows. By bringing together case management, depositions, contracts and drafting into a single system, Filevine has positioned itself as a central operating platform for modern legal teams.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Apr 2022
$108m
SERIES D
Total funding: $825.6m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Short & long-term disability
- Maternity & Paternity leave
- Centrally located open office in Sugar House
- Company swag that will make your friends envious
- Opportunity to make an impact on Day 1
Company HQ
Sugar House, Salt Lake City, UT
Leadership
Ryan Anderson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ryan co-founded Filevine in 2014 and has served as the CEO since.
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