Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Join a growing, venture-funded startup! We manage petabytes of data and dozens of AWS environments across multiple countries. Our clients use Everlaw to operate on mission-critical and highly confidential data and trust us to maintain a secure, performant, and resilient platform. We take this trust very seriously and are looking to hire engineers with expertise in these areas to take our software development practices to the next level.

Our team has laid out the groundwork on many initiatives to improve engineering operations but there is more we can do. Our company is growing quickly and we are looking to not just keep pace as an operations team but to excel. You’ll help us keep these priorities in focus and help us get even better as we expand our offerings and host orders-of-magnitude more data.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning. We also provide data and insights to the rest of Everlaw. At our core, we like to build and enjoy the creative process of building software that is smart, that works well, that scales well, and that is reliable and secure. We do this by supporting and empowering our team members to do their best work, by tackling challenging and complex engineering problems and by nurturing and supporting each team member through mentoring, coaching, and comprehensive feedback. 

At Everlaw, our mission is to promote justice by illuminating truth. Our company culture is open and democratic 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 on-site position located in Oakland, California.

Getting started

• We 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 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…

• Build and maintain observability tools that provide insight and ensure smooth operation of our platform.
• Optimize cloud resources to meet the performance needs of each service and decrease AWS spend.
• Create documentation that is easier to find and easy to understand.
• Improve our reliability, security, and quality of our cloud infrastructure with automation of processes including: configuration management, application/infrastructure deployment, and compliance/governance.
• Proactively support production operations by building logging/monitoring/alerting functionality across our environment.
• Be on-call and respond to critical site reliability issues.
• Improve our on-call and incident management processes by encouraging deeper understanding, communication, and trust. 
• Support developer projects by influencing design and implementation of infrastructure and site reliability features as well as providing technical guidance.
• Support compliance efforts by promoting continuous documentation of our processes and involvement in audits.Build scalable workflows to automate build, deployment, and management of the Everlaw platform. 

ABOUT YOU

• You have at least 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer platform or infrastructure engineer or in a similar role or at least 2 years of experience and a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent coursework.
• Due to federal contract requirements, Everlaw may only hire US citizens for this role.
• For three of the five years immediately prior to applying for a position, you must: 1) have resided in the United States; 2) have worked for the United States overseas in a Federal or military capacity; or 3) be a dependent of a Federal or military employee serving overseas.
• You have a passion for automation and tooling paired with effective scripting experience and experience building reusable tools.
• You are proficient with Python programming.
• You have good knowledge of algorithms and fundamental computer science concepts.
• You have experience with Infrastructure as Code and container solutions to manage cloud environments (ex: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, etc).
• You have excellent communication and collaboration skills that can motivate and move the team towards a common direction. 
• You have experience with performance tuning and monitoring systems (ex: ELK, Prometheus, Datadog, etc).

PLUSES

• You have specific expertise in Amazon Web Services.
• You have built logging and monitoring infrastructures.
• You have experience administering Linux-based systems.
• You have experience maintaining Kubernetes clusters.

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $125,000 and $165,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors, including the candidate’s experience, skills, and interview performance. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
• Competitive salary
• 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

Perks

• Work in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
• Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
• Monthly home internet reimbursement
• Select your preference of hardware (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
• Enjoy a wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
• Bond over company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
• Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities 
• Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium companies
• One 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 Journal
• One 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”
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