Platform Engineer, Databases

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer, Databases to join our Systems Engineering, Production team. This role is for someone 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.

Location & Work Requirements

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.

Team

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 labour or friction points.

Responsibilities

• 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 scope, define, and collaborate with developers to implement automation and processes that power the reliability of Clio’s data stores.

Qualifications

• Experience investigating and solving performance problems.
• The ability to optimize query performance.
• Readiness to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge with the rest of the SRE team.
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects).
• A keen interest in improving your craft using AI.

The most important part of this job is that you approach new challenges with curiosity and a drive to apply what you learn to fixing root causes, not just symptoms. Deep curiosity and a desire to learn will help you succeed in this job, combined with a drive to help others by shipping code.

Bonus Skills

• Migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost.
• Managing hosts with Puppet.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ruby or Golang.
• AWS resources with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Bash, ProxySQL, and the Percona toolkit.

Benefits & Compensation

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

• 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 twice per week.
• 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.

The expected salary range for this role is $116,500 to $157,500 CAD. There are separate salary bands for other regions based on local currency. The final offer amount will depend on geographic region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity

We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.