Senior Software Database Engineer
About the role
Everlaw is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems to drive the development of our core data infrastructure. As a mid-sized SaaS company experiencing rapid growth, our challenge isn't just storing data—it's designing and writing the code that ensures data is highly available, performant at scale, and ready to power the next generation of AI-driven features.
Responsibilities
Architect and Develop Everlaw’s database and storage strategy: Define how our primary transactional databases interface with our coding architecture, caching layers, and analytics data store.
Develop and Implement Sharding and Replication Systems: Drive the implementation strategy for horizontal scaling, including designing and coding logical partitioning and sharding. You will design multi-region replication strategies and failover mechanisms to ensure high availability. You will build and maintain the internal tooling necessary to monitor and mitigate replication lag and data consistency.
Engineer Database Performance: Dive deep into database internals, focusing on code-level optimizations to analyze and improve memory management, disk I/O, and query execution plans. You will work directly on schema and index changes, query optimization, and performance tuning.
Build Migration Tooling for Low-Downtime Operations: Design and develop database migration tooling and strategies for SQL environments to ensure high availability and minimal business interruption.
Build Observability Systems: Develop and maintain internal tooling to provide deep visibility into database health and bottleneck identification before they impact customers.
Always be learning: Stay up to date with 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.
Requirements
You have at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years of experience in database engineering.
You have a deep understanding of the storage engines and locking mechanisms of at least one major RDBMS (Postgres or MySQL preferred).
You have experience with Distributed Systems: Proven track record of managing databases in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring employment visas for this role.