Base Salary
$173k - $251k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop Everlaw’s database and storage strategy across transactional databases, application architecture, caching layers, and analytics data stores.
- Design and implement horizontal scaling, logical partitioning, sharding, multi-region replication, failover mechanisms, and tooling for replication lag and data consistency.
- Optimize database performance through work on memory management, disk I/O, query execution plans, schemas, indexes, queries, and database internals.
- Build SQL database migration tooling and strategies for low-downtime, high-availability operations.
- Develop observability tooling to monitor database health and identify bottlenecks before they affect customers.
- Serve as a software design owner, collaborate with engineering teams, and guide engineers in database expertise.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience and at least 3 years of database engineering experience.
- Deep understanding of storage engines and locking mechanisms in at least one major RDBMS, with Postgres or MySQL preferred.
- Proven experience managing databases in a cloud environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Authorization to work in the United States without restrictions; Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas for this role.
- Practical vector search experience with Weaviate, Chroma, or pgvector to support embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation is a plus.
Benefits
- Equity program, 401(k) with company matching, health, dental, and vision coverage, and flexible spending accounts.
- Paid parental leave, approximately 10 days of sick leave, 17 paid vacation days, and 11 federal holidays.
- Modern Health membership, company-sponsored life and disability insurance, and an annual learning and development stipend.
- Full-time, exempt position based onsite in Oakland, California, with three days per week in the office.
- Powerful Linux laptop, customizable desk setup, team lunches, company events, and paid time for volunteer activities.
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About Everlaw
Everlaw keeps legal teams one step ahead of the growing demands of ediscovery by transforming how they discover the truth. Everlaw empowers organizations to better navigate litigation and investigations to chart a straighter path to the truth, with the industry’s most advanced ediscovery technology, an intuitive user experience, and trusted customer success capabilities. As a partner to litigators, corporate counsel, and government attorneys, Everlaw gives teams the speed, security, and ease of use they need to investigate issues thoroughly, uncover the truth quickly, and present their findings clearly. Today’s legal leaders are taking on the industry’s most pressing technological challenges and transforming their organizations with Everlaw.