Everlaw · 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Observability
Oakland, California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$124K/yr - $181K/yr
5+ years expEverlaw is a company focused on promoting justice by illuminating truth, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build observability tooling and support application performance. The role involves developing infrastructure as code, monitoring trends, and collaborating with various engineering teams to enhance the Everlaw platform.
Cloud ComputingDocument ManagementLegalLegal Tech
Responsibilities
Build observability strategies to support application and infrastructure metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IAC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Monitor usage trends to identify opportunities to optimize efficiency and performance of our metrics database and logging tools
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 features as well as providing technical guidance
Support compliance efforts by promoting continuous documentation of our processes and involvement in audits
Collaborate with Product Engineering, Security Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure and Release teams to build out and implement new features that are used in our production environments
Provide Technical Mentorship to other engineers by both sharing your technical knowledge and becoming an expert in an area of our code base
Be a Code Reviewer by reviewing code developed by others using your knowledge of programming languages, design patterns, and best practices. Contribute to documentation for internal engineering consumption or for external the Everlaw platform
Be on-call and respond to critical site reliability issues
Do technical interviews to help us recruit engineers and grow the team
Qualification
Required
You have a BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent coursework
You have at least 5 years of experience building logging, metrics databases, and tracing infrastructure to ensure that engineers have the tools they need to detect and respond to incidents
You have experience and proficiency in coding in a language such as C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, Go or Rust
You have good knowledge of algorithms and fundamental computer science concepts, relational databases, networking and distributed systems
You have experience with Infrastructure as Code and container solutions to manage cloud environments (ex: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, etc)
You have at least 1 year of experience leading multi-developer efforts, including planning, technical breakdown, and coordination
You have excellent communication and collaboration skills that can motivate and move the team towards a common direction
You have US Citizenship
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
Preferred
You are familiar with building software on the AWS platform
You have experience with container technologies
Benefits
Substantial equity
401k with company matching
Health, dental, and vision
Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
Paid parental leave and sick leave
Seventeen paid vacation days plus ten bankable federal holidays
Four “Everlawlidays” that are designated days off for the whole company
Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
Company
Everlaw
Everlaw offers a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$298.6MKey Investors
TPG GrowthCapitalGMenlo Ventures
2021-11-02Series D· $202M
2020-03-10Series C· $62M
2018-06-28Series B· $25M
Leadership Team
AJ Shankar
Founder, CEO
Scott Allen
Chief Financial Officer
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