Senior Database Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Database Engineer, you'll be the driving force behind the performance, reliability, and scalability of the databases that power Litera's SaaS platform — used daily by millions of legal professionals worldwide. You'll partner closely with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to shape data architecture decisions that directly impact customer experience and platform uptime.

What you'll do

• Feel right at home here
• Drive root cause analysis during major incidents and lead cross-functional resolution efforts, minimizing customer impact and strengthening system resilience
• Implement advanced security standards — including row-level security and data encryption — to protect sensitive legal data and maintain compliance
• Automate routine database operations to reduce toil, increase reliability, and free up engineering capacity for higher-impact work
• Review and improve database code across teams, mentoring engineers on best practices and elevating the quality of our data layer

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• SQL Server
• Azure
• Root cause analysis
• MBA

Good to have

• Data modelling
• SOX
• Datadog
• Grafana