Platform Engineer (Databases)

Role overview

Platform Engineer specializing in databases at Clio. You will own the optimization, maintenance, and evolution of Clio’s MySQL infrastructure to support high-performance applications.

Key responsibilities

• Optimize, maintain, and evolve the MySQL infrastructure for performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with product development teams to build tools that improve workflows and reduce manual effort.
• Investigate and resolve database performance issues across MySQL and other data stores.
• Define and drive the roadmap for database infrastructure.

Requirements / profile

• Strong willingness to develop and share MySQL expertise with the SRE team.
• Demonstrated record of successful projects (and learnings from failures).
• Ability to optimize query performance.
• Experience investigating and solving MySQL performance problems.
• Experience managing hosts with Puppet.
• Experience with database migration tooling such as pt-online-schema-change or gh-ost.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Ruby or Golang.
• Experience using AWS with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Scripting skills with Bash.
• Familiarity with ProxySQL and the Percona toolkit.

Nice-to-haves

• Keen interest in improving your craft using AI.