Senior Platform Engineer, Clio
Databases
CA$149.6-202.4k
Legal practice management software
Job no longer available
Legal practice management software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$149.6-202.4k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the legal experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Backend development experience
- MySql and/or PostgreSQL expertise
- Experience investigating and solving performance problems
- The ability to optimize query performance
- A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
- Demonstrate a keen interest in improving your craft by using AI
- You are equally energized by both your own technical work as well as contributing to the career growth of your team
- You have strong opinions that are weakly held, and foster that same attitude in others
- You 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 business
- You believe in providing honest, actionable feedback to your team, and encourage your team to reciprocate
- You devise roadmaps to guide the future of our datastores infrastructure in terms of scale and data security
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team
- This role is for someone with deep database expertise (MySQL/Postgres), 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
- 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 labor or friction points
- 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 use your experience to guide development teams on how to improve and optimize their use of the databases
- You will scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power reliability of Clio’s datastores
- You will work with the SRE team and help develop their MySQL knowledge
Our take
Modern law firms increasingly manage their work digitally but the lack of a specialized remote solution means that workflows have become fragmented. This leads to legal practice managers having to juggle multiple software solutions across various devices.
Clio provides a legal practice management platform designed for law firms, allowing users to manage billing for legal aid cases, access and manage documents and store files across multiple devices. Whilst other startups are operating in this niche, Clio has uniquely focussed on synchronisation across remote devices and on a wide range of integrations, allowing the user to access information from other industry standard software such as Xero and Klyant from within a single interface.
Clio has raised significant funding and benefited from the COVID-era shift toward cloud technologies. More recently, the company has experienced rapid growth following the integration of AI into its platform in 2023. Alongside this, it surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in mid-2024 and has since grown to an impressive $500M ARR. The company was valued at $5B following a $500M funding round in 2025, with the investment supporting further AI development and platform expansion.
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Company benefits
- Specialized learning and development programs and access to an in-house performance coach
- Equitable compensation for your contributions, regardless of gender, race, or any other identifying factor
- Access to pay transparency on all of our global roles
- Company equity for applicable employees
- RRSP-matching in Canada, 401k in the US, and pension plans in Ireland
- Hybrid model – striking the right balance between the benefits of in person connectivity that in office brings, and the flexibility of remote
- Flexible paid time off (4-week minimum with opportunities for personalization based on individual needs and achievements)
- Parental leave options for birthing and non-birthing parents
- A $500 contribution to your child’s RESP
- Various health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family, including an Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Virtual and In-person Wellness Programs to support mental and physical health
- Paid time for volunteering through our Clio Gives program
- $2000 annual counseling benefit for CAD Clions
Company HQ
Burnaby, BC
Leadership
Jack Newton
(Founder & CEO)Alongside serving as Clio's CEO since founding the company in 2008, Jack is an Advisor at Athennian, dealcloser, and Logikcull. Previously, they were a Board Member at ROSS Intelligence and a Director of Product Development at Chenomx.
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