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Database Reliability Engineer

Filevine is a cloud-based legal technology company providing case management, document management, and automation tools for law firms and legal departments. [1, 4, 30] It aims to simplify and elevate complex legal work. [5, 19]

Filevine

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 140k-180k USD

United States only
Filevine is forging the future of legal work with cloud-based workflow tools. We have a reputation for intuitive, streamlined technology that helps professionals manage their organization and serve their clients better. We’re also known for our team of extraordinary and passionate professionals who love working together to help organizations thrive. Our success has catapulted Filevine to the forefront of our field—we are ranked as one of the most innovative and fastest-growing technology companies in the country by both Deloitte and Inc.

Our Mission

Filevine is building the seamless intersection between legal and business by creating a world- class platform to help professionals scale.

Role Summary:

Join Filevine as a Database Reliability Engineer and play a key role in scaling, optimizing, and ensuring the performance of our high-volume SQL Server and PostgreSQL environments. You'll lead with technical excellence, collaborate across teams, and mentor others—all while working on complex, meaningful challenges that power a critical legal tech platform.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and excellent judgement by being responsible for:
  • Performance tuning of Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases, optimizing at the server, database, and query levels
  • Scaling and monitoring of Databases
  • Assist teams in designing, building databases and schemas
  • Use, develop, and build tools and alerts for monitoring database performance, reliability, and maintenance plans
  • Provide documentation for developers and internal staff on database-related topics
  • Triage escalated production issues with cross-functional teams
  • Work within assigned team to complete duties as assigned, while mentoring, training, and reviewing more junior engineers, helping to define team development and engineering best practices, and leading the teams in implementation of these best practices
  • Be part of an on-call rotation with other team members to provide 24/7/365 database reliability support
  • Communicate frequently, clearly, and effectively with various technical and management audiences
  • Analyze and improve the scalability and performance of high-volume, information rich web applications
  • Participate in lively engineering debate, making a strong and logical case for well considered opinions, while appreciating the opinions of peers

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience maintaining and optimizing large production databases
  • Expert Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL troubleshooting skills
  • Expert in tuning queries generated from ORM’s
  • Expert T-SQL skills, and any common scripting language
  • Experience with Powershell or Python
  • Familiarity with object oriented programming languages, ideally C#.
  • Familiarity with Amazon Web Services
  • Experience with AWS RDS and DMS
  • Shows mastery working independently on assigned projects as well as mentor and train others exemplarily
  • Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Docker, AWS, Git, GitLab, Octopus, Terraform and CI/CD Tools
  • Ability to work independently on assigned projects or with other team members as requested
  • Ability to complete work assignments efficiently and productively
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Microsoft MVP or other Microsoft SQL Server Database or PostgreSQL Certification preferred
  • B.S., M.S. in computer science, information systems, a related field; comparable certifications; or equivalent direct work experience
Compensation Information: $140,000 - $180,000 base
The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. The total compensation package for this position will be determined by each individual’s location, qualifications, education, work experience, skills and performance. We believe in the importance of pay equity - the range listed is just one component of Filevine’s total compensation package for employees. This position is also eligible for a paid time off policy, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.

Cool Company Benefits:

- A dynamic, rapidly growing company, focused on helping organizations thrive
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive Fair Pay
- Maternity paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Centrally located open office building in Sugar House (onsite employees)
- Top-of-the-line company swag

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Salary: 140k-180k USD

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About Filevine

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Filevine's journey began from the real-world frustrations of practicing attorneys Ryan Anderson and Nate Morris. As lawyers managing a growing firm, they found existing software solutions inadequate for the pace and complexity of their work. This firsthand experience of the legal profession's daily grind – the mountains of paperwork, the critical deadlines, and the constant need for seamless client communication – fueled a desire for something better. They envisioned a system that could truly support the demanding nature of legal practice, a stark contrast to the clunky, outdated tools they were forced to use. This wasn't just about incremental improvement; it was about fundamentally rethinking how legal work could be managed with modern technology.

The turning point came when Anderson and Morris connected with Jim Blake, described as a 'one-of-a-kind, truly brilliant engineer'. [1, 12] This meeting of legal insight and engineering prowess was the catalyst for Filevine's creation. [1, 12] Together, they embarked on a mission to build a platform designed by lawyers, for lawyers. Starting with a focus on personal injury firms, Filevine was initially conceived as a task management software. However, the ambition was always larger. The team recognized that legal professionals across all practice areas were underserved by existing technology and were hungry for tools that could genuinely make their lives easier and their work more effective. This understanding, coupled with a commitment to listening to customer needs, drove Filevine's evolution. The company expanded its offerings to cover the entire legal matter lifecycle, acquiring companies like Lead Docket and Outlaw to enhance its capabilities in lead intake and document management. [1, 2] From its early days, operating on a shoestring budget, Filevine has grown into a comprehensive legal operating system, now valued at over a billion dollars and serving thousands of law firms and legal departments. [1, 2, 19] The platform now incorporates advanced AI features, demonstrating a continued commitment to innovation and to transforming the way legal work gets done. [1, 19]

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Life Insurance

Offers life insurance.

Performance Bonus

Offers performance-based bonuses.

Health Insurance

Provides health insurance coverage.

401(K)

Offers a 401(K) plan for retirement savings.

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