Everlaw · 1 hour ago
Staff/Principal Database Engineer
Oakland, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$228K/yr - $340K/yr
10+ years expEverlaw is a mid-sized SaaS company experiencing rapid growth, seeking a Staff or Principal Database Engineer to be the technical cornerstone of their data infrastructure. The role involves designing and optimizing database strategies to ensure high availability and performance, while also providing technical guidance to engineering teams.
Cloud ComputingDocument ManagementLegalLegal Tech
Responsibilities
Design Everlaw’s database and storage strategy: Direct how our primary transactional databases interface with our coding architecture, caching layers, and analytics data store
Design for scalability, sharding, and replication: Lead the strategy for horizontal scaling, including logical partitioning and sharding, to support our growing SaaS environment. You’ll own the design of multi-region replication strategies and failover mechanisms to ensure high availability. You’ll build 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
Plan for low-downtime migrations : Lead the design and execution of 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
Always be learning: Stay at the forefront of the industry, evaluating when to adopt emerging technologies versus optimizing our existing stack. You’ll bring back your learnings to the team and how you might apply these to our work
Qualification
Required
at least 10 years of experience in software engineering
at least 6 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)
demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and influence the broader engineering organization's data culture
Preferred
practical experience with vector search, including databases such as Weaviate, Chroma, Pinecone, or pgvector to support embeddings and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) for our AI initiatives
Benefits
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
Company
Everlaw
Everlaw offers a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$298.6MKey Investors
TPG GrowthCapitalGMenlo Ventures
2021-11-02Series D· $202M
2020-03-10Series C· $62M
2018-06-28Series B· $25M
Leadership Team
AJ Shankar
Founder, CEO
Scott Allen
Chief Financial Officer
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