Database Reliability Engineer

Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.

Our Mission

Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.

Role Summary:

Join Filevine as a Database Reliability Engineer and play a key role in scaling, optimizing, and ensuring the performance of our high-volume SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments. You'll lead with technical excellence, collaborate across teams, and mentor others—all while working on complex, meaningful challenges that power a critical legal tech platform.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgement by being responsible for:

Performance tuning of Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, optimizing at the server, database, and query levels

Scaling and monitoring of Databases

Assist teams in designing, building databases and schemas

Use, develop, and build tools and alerts for monitoring database performance, reliability, and maintenance plans

Provide documentation for developers and internal staff on database-related topics

Triage escalated production issues with cross-functional teams

Work within assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers, helping to define team development and engineering best practices, and leading the teams in implementation of these best practices

Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide 24/7/365 database reliability support

Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences

Analyze and improve the scalability and performance of high-volume, information rich web applications

Participate in lively engineering debate, making a strong and logical case for well considered opinions, while appreciating the opinions of peers

Qualifications

8+ years of experience maintaining and optimizing large production databases

Expert Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL troubleshooting skills

Expert in tuning queries generated from ORM’s

Expert T-SQL skills, and any common scripting language

Experience with Powershell or Python

Familiarity with object oriented programming languages, ideally C#.

Familiarity with Amazon Web Services

Experience with AWS RDS and DMS

Shows mastery working independently on assigned projects as well as mentor and train others exemplarily

Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, AWS, Git, GitLab, Octopus, Terraform and CI/CD Tools

Ability to work independently on assigned projects or with other team members as requested

Ability to complete work assignments efficiently and productively

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Microsoft MVP or other Microsoft SQL Server Database or PostgreSQL Certification preferred

B.S., M.S. in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience

Additional Information

Compensation Information:$140,000 - $180,000 base

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Cool Company Benefits:

- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive

- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)

- Competitive & Fair Pay

- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)

- Short & long-term disability

- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team

- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)

- Top-of-the-line company swag

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