Everlaw

Everlaw

Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems

Oakland, California, United States · Senior · Full-time

Work authorization required$173k-$251kDetected 111 days ago
Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLPostgreSQLMySQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsLinuxData ScienceRAGOnboardingResearch

About the role

  • Our company culture is open and vibrant and we're committed to the professional growth of our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular check-ins with managers regarding career goals.
  • If you're looking for a place that values passion, integrity, thinking big, and a desire to learn, we'd love to hear from you!
  • Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply?

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Requirements

  • You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions.
  • You have practical experience with vector search, including databases such as Weaviate, Chroma, or pgvector) to support embeddings and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) for our AI initiatives.

Nice to have

  • 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).

Skills

  • Define how our primary transactional databases interface with our coding architecture, caching layers, and analytics data store.
  • Stay up to date with the industry, evaluating when to adopt emerging technologies versus optimizing our existing stack.

Compensation

  • The expected salary range for this role is between $173,000 - $251,000.
  • The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate's experience and skills.
  • The base pay range is subject to change in the future.

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
  • Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

Visa & Work Authorization

  • You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions.
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