Database Administrator - Toronto, Canada - Clio

Clio

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

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.

What your team does:

Clio is looking for a Database Administrator to join the team that builds and manages our MySQL databases and related systems.

We're building a cross-Canada, distributed team that forms the foundation of Clio's engineering organization:

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 reliability;
You will investigate and solve performance problems with our MySQL databases
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'll raise the bar by spreading database knowledge to your team;
Elevate and educate our engineering processes within Clio

What you may have:

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

What you should have:

Handson technical expertise with building and configuring MySQL database servers; Bonus points for understanding how to do this in a cloud environment
Experience investigating and solving performance problems with MySQL databases
Experience using ProxySQL and the percona toolkit
Be prepared to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to rest of the SRE team
A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects).

Serious bonus points if you have:

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 or Terraform.
Experience scripting with BASH.

Our Team
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.

About Clio
At Clio, we are on a mission to transform the legal experience for all.

As the world's leading provider of cloud-based legal software, we provide lawyers with low-barrier, affordable solutions to manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences.

Through the cloud, we believe that we can help create a more inclusive legal community and a more equitable legal system.

We are an award-winning team that has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies, Canada's Most Admired Cultures and has topped Fast Company's list of Most Innovative Companies.

In line with our mission, we've been up to some big things, including becoming a multi-product company, launching a $1 million COVID-19 Legal Relief Initiative, and most recently, securing a US$110M Series E funding round and a USD $1.6B valuation.

This is a historic moment in the growth of legal technology As the first legal practice management unicorn globally, and one of only a handful of Canadian unicorns, this is only the beginning.

If you've ever wanted to do the best work of your career, while having a meaningful impact in the lives of others, then Clio is the place for you.