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

Benefits

• Company equity
• 401k
• $500 contribution when you become a parent and/or guardian
• RRSP-matching
• Pension plans
• 4-week minimum vacation
• Work from home when you need to (role-specific)
• Parental leave options for moms and dads
• Customizable extended health benefits (including $2000 per year to spend on counseling)
• Wellness programs including an onsite naturopath physiotherapist, and RMT (location-dependent), healthy snacks, and exercise classes- Readiness to work with and develop the MySQL knowledge to the rest of the SRE team
• A portfolio of successful projects (as well as a collection of lessons learned from failed projects)
• The ability to optimize query performance
• A keen interest in improving your craft using AI
• Experience investigating and solving performance problems
• Managing hosts with Puppet
• Migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Ruby or Golang
• AWS resources with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Bash
• ProxySQL and the Percona toolkit