Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

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Engineer, Databases 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. 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.

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 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 Experience investigating and solving performance problems The ability to optimize query performance 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)



A keen interest in improving your craft using AI Deep curiosity and a desire to learn will help you succeed in this job, combined with a drive to help others by shipping code. Serious bonus points if you have experience with Migrations tools, pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost Ruby or Golang AWS resources with Terraform or CloudFormation We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture. Competitive, equitable salary with top‑tier health benefits, dental, and vision insurance Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions (Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Dublin, London, New York City and Sydney) to be in office minimum twice per week Flexible time off policy, with an encouraged 20 days off per year $The expected salary range for this role is $116,500 to $137,000 to $157,500 CAD.

There are a separate set of salary bands for other regions based on local currency. The top portion of the salary band is reserved for employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at Clio. Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an setting where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We’re a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations.

In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we’ve built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

📌 Platform Engineer, Databases (Vancouver)
🏢 Clio
📍 Vancouver