Senior Software Engineer, Database Systems (Oakland)

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.In this role, you will be a key contributor and software design owner for our databases and storage layer, moving fluidly between low-level performance coding and high-level system architecture. You will spend most of your time designing and writing code to build robust, scalable solutions. You will collaborate closely with a core squad of engineers and provide guidance to engineers across the broader engineering organization to level up their database expertise. You’ll also collaborate with (and learn from) a community of other senior and staff engineers with expertise in search, cloud infrastructure, full stack SaaS application design, data science, and performance.Note: We value applied expertise. We are looking for a software engineer who loves the theory but lives for the practice of building reliable, high-performance production data systems.At Everlaw, engineering is key to our mission. 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? We do not believe in the ‘perfect’ candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team.This is a full-time, exempt position located onsite (3 days/week in office) in Oakland, California.Getting startedWe want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product, policies, processes, and team structure and goals. We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust that you’ll bring industry experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.In your role, you'll...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.About youYou 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.PlusesYou 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.BenefitsThe 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.Equity program401(k) retirement plan with company matchingHealth, dental, and visionFlexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expensesPaid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leaveSeventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidaysMembership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellnessAnnual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership duesCompany-sponsored life and disability insuranceFind out more about our Benefits and PerksPerksWork in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurantsYou will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setupBond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events Ranked “#1 on G2 for Ediscovery Software and Momentum” and we offer free eDiscovery resources to benefit the greater societal good with Everlaw for GoodTime off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choiceTake advantage of learning and career development opportunities Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companiesOne of Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies, and ranked #2 on the “2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work” list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business JournalOne of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022 and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater good through “Everlaw for Good”#LI-MN2#LI-Hybrid​​About EverlawAt Everlaw, you'll shape how AI re-wires the legal industry, at a category-leading business built on a mission to illuminate the truth.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. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We collect and process the personal information you provided along with your job application in accordance with our Applicants Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection.When preparing to engage with Everlaw as a candidate, you may use AI tools for research, polishing application materials, and interview prep. However, any assessments (unless explicitly stated), remote interviews or live interviews must be completed independently without AI support. By submitting your application, you agree to adhere to these rules. Here's the link to our full policy, and please reach out with any questions!We use Gem as part of our hiring and/or promotional processes. As part of the evaluation process, we provide Gem with job requirements and candidate-submitted applications. 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