Everlaw is looking for a Database Engineer to serve as the technical cornerstone of our data infrastructure. You will ensure data is highly available, performant at scale, and ready to power AI-driven features as our in-house expert for databases and storage layer.
What You'll Do
- Design Everlaw’s database and storage strategy, directing how primary transactional databases interface with coding architecture, caching layers, and analytics data store.
- Lead the strategy for horizontal scaling, including logical partitioning and sharding, to support a growing SaaS environment.
- Own the design of multi-region replication strategies and failover mechanisms to ensure high availability.
- Build systems to monitor and mitigate replication lag and data consistency.
- Analyze and optimize database internals, including memory management, disk I/O, and query execution plans.
- Lead the design and execution of database migration strategies for SQL environments to ensure high availability and minimal business interruption.
- Build and maintain tooling to provide visibility into database health and bottleneck identification before they impact customers.
- Stay at the forefront of the industry, evaluating when to adopt emerging technologies versus optimizing the existing stack.
- Drive the work of a core squad of engineers and provide technical guidance to level up database expertise across the broader engineering organization.
What We're Looking For
- 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).
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Practical experience with vector search, including databases such as Weaviate, Chroma, Pinecone, or pgvector to support embeddings and RAG for AI initiatives.
Technical Stack
- Postgres, MySQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Weaviate, Chroma, Pinecone, pgvector
Team & Environment
You will lead a core squad of engineers and collaborate with the broader engineering organization and a community of other staff and principal engineers. The role has regular visibility and interactions with the Chief Technology Officer and other senior leaders.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $228,000 - $340,000
- Equity program
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
- Paid parental leave
- Approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
- Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
- Membership to Modern Health for mental health and wellness
- Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
- Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of choice
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work mode and is based in Oakland, California.
Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.
