Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Platform

About the position

Documents are a central concept of the law and in legal tech. Storing, retrieving, organizing, indexing, and searching terabytes of documents for our customers is a major portion of the technical foundation for our business. The volume and complexity of those activities, as well as the amount of data is always increasing. We are developing the next level of capabilities and abstractions to automate the scale of this subsystem. Doing so will have a massive impact on our ability to serve customers, deliver features, and scale our platform.

Responsibilities

• Define infrastructure automation strategy for highly scalable and performant search systems
• Identify capabilities and abstractions needed to satisfy required performance and scalability targets through automated, zero-downtime data and infrastructure management
• Build and maintain roadmap and architecture for realizing those abstractions and capabilities
• Lead software and systems development for that roadmap
• Contribute leadership, understanding and lessons learned to the greater DISCO platform in these areas
• Recruit, hire and mentor other architects and engineers to accomplish the above

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Ability to create and communicate systems architectures including Domain-Driven Design, Jobs to Be Done, architectural patterns, and diagramming techniques
• Mastery of infrastructure automation such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Proficiency with container-based deployment such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Fluency in one or more cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure (AWS preferred)
• Experience operating datastores at scale, such as: ElasticSearch, NoSql Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores
• Experience operating systems at scale including observability and site reliability
• Experience using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid
• Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, and not be married to a specific stack

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree in computer science, software engineering, or similar
• Experience managing a team of direct reports
• Experience designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems
• An understanding of how to design and develop from a Security Perspective
• An understanding of how to identify, select, and extend 3rd Party Components (Commercial or Open Source) that provide operational leverage but does not constrain our product and engineering creativity

Benefits

• Open, inclusive, and fun environment
• Benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, as well as 401(k)
• Competitive salary plus RSUs
• Flexible PTO
• Opportunity to be a part of a company that is revolutionizing the legal industry
• Growth opportunities throughout the company