Platform Engineer

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. Purpose-built for the legal industry, Clio’s Intelligent Legal Work Platform streamlines workflows, improves decision-making, and combines powerful technology with industry-leading security.

You’ll be part of a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with engineers in North America and Europe, driving technical excellence across Clio’s production environments.

• Design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure supporting Clio’s production environments.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
• Collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and overall developer experience.
• Enhance observability and reliability, refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate on cloud optimization projects, improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Partner with Security, MLOps, and Product Engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant systems.
• Define agentic patterns to inflect the way we build, deploy, and observe cloud infrastructure.

• Experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure and managed services (like RDS, EKS, Lambda) at scale.
• Expertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Strong coding foundation, beyond scripting, with experience in application development or designing and building robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience in container orchestration and cluster management.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Experience with relational or non-relational datastores in a production environment.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Familiarity with Linux systems administration, networking, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities, with a focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration.
• Growth mindset when it comes to process improvement and new technologies, especially AI.

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS in production environments.
• Expertise with best practices for managing and securing cloud environments at scale.
• Prior experience leveraging AI to accelerate yourself and your team through generating code and debugging infrastructure issues.
• Prior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.
• Prior experience working with software teams building and shipping applications to the cloud.
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling distributed data stores (e.g., MySQL/Aurora) at scale, including troubleshooting database bottlenecks and implementing robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.

• Competitive, equitable salary
• Clio offers a flexible hybrid work environment
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private Healthcare with Life Insurance & Critical Illness cover
• Pension contribution
• Professional development and growth options
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years