Principal Software Engineer, DISCO

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Ability to create and communicate systems architectures including Domain-Driven Design, Jobs to Be Done, architectural patterns, and diagramming techniques
• Mastery of infrastructure automation such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Chef, Puppet, etc
• Proficiency with container-based deployment such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Fluency in one or more cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS preferred)
• Experience operating datastores at scale, such as: ElasticSearch, NoSql Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores
• Experience operating systems at scale including observability and site reliability
• Experience using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
• Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, and not be married to a specific stack

Desirable

• Documents are a central concept of the law and in legal tech
• Storing, retrieving, organizing, indexing, and searching terabytes of documents for our customers is a major portion of the technical foundation for our business
• The volume and complexity of those activities, as well as the amount of data is always increasing
• We are developing the next level of capabilities and abstractions to automate the scale of this subsystem
• Doing so will have a massive impact on our ability to serve customers, deliver features, and scale our platform
• Define infrastructure automation strategy for highly scalable and crazy performant search systems
• Identify capabilities and abstractions needed to satisfy required performance and scalability targets through automated, zero-downtime data and infrastructure management
• Build and maintain roadmap and architecture for realizing those abstractions and capabilities
• Lead software and systems development for that roadmap
• Contribute leadership, understanding and lessons learned to the greater DISCO platform in these areas
• Recruit, hire and mentor other architects and engineers to accomplish the above
• DISCO's Technology Stack:
• Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, ECS, EKS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, SageMaker, KMS, CodePipeline, etc
• DSL-based Search: multiple large-scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL)
• Event Bus: Kafka and Schema Registry
• 3rd Party Vendors: Redis, Auth0 for Cloud Identity Federation (SSO, SAML, etc)