Senior Software Database Engineer

• Contribute to Everlaw’s database and storage strategy: Define how our primary transactional databases interface with our coding architecture, caching layers, and analytics data store
• Implement for scalability, sharding, and replication: Contribute to the strategy for horizontal scaling, including logical partitioning and sharding, to support our growing SaaS environment. You’ll help design multi-region replication strategies and failover mechanisms to ensure high availability. You’ll build and maintain systems to monitor and mitigate replication lag and data consistency
• Dive deep into database performance tuning: Analyze and optimize database internals, including memory management, disk I/O, and query execution plans
• Participate in low-downtime migrations: Participate in the design and execute database migration strategies for SQL environments to ensure high availability and minimal business interruption
• Put observability front and center in our approach: Build and maintain tooling to provide visibility into database health and bottleneck identification before they impact customers

• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 3 years of experience in database engineering
• Deep understanding of the storage engines and locking mechanisms of at least one major RDBMS (Postgres or MySQL preferred)
• Experience with Distributed Systems: Proven track record of managing databases in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Practical experience with vector search, including databases such as Weaviate, Chroma, or pgvector) to support embeddings and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) for our AI initiatives

• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
• You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
• Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
• Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities