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Senior Software Engineer, Platform Observability

Oakland, California, United States

Everlaw is looking for a Senior Software Engineer that brings experience in building robust observability tooling, humility in their approach, and interest in expanding their skills in new directions. Tackling litigation with technology is a deep challenge that requires search, databases, data visualization, distributed systems, machine learning, real-time collaboration, nifty user interfaces, and more. We will encourage you to explore our entire system and work with significant autonomy across the stack. We care about finding self-driven engineers that love their craft, write clean software, use the right tools for the job, and avoid dogma. As a result, we've been able to build quite a bit of sophisticated technology with a small, talented team. Though our team has grown, we have maintained a culture where you'll own serious features, write great code, learn a huge amount, and have a lot of fun. There are no sprints and no deadlines (!); code quality and maintainability is paramount.

Engineering is the backbone of the Everlaw Platform. We build features and functionality into the product and ensure its smooth functioning with automation and monitoring tools. 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, works well, scales well, and 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 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, on-site position located in Oakland, California.

• 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.
• 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-calland respond to critical site reliability issues.
• Do technical interviews to help us recruit engineers and grow the team.

About you

• 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 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.

PLUSES

• You are familiar with building software on the AWS platform.
• You have experience with container technologies.
• The expected salary range for this role is between $ 124,000 - $181,000. 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.
• 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
• 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
• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
• You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
• Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
• 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

At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you're empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work.That's why we're committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you're looking for a place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we'd love to hear from you!

We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today.

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 theCalifornia Equal Pay Act . Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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