Staff Software Engineer, DISCO
Data Platform
Plus RSUs
AI enabled legal technology
Open for applications
AI enabled legal technology
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Plus RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reinvent legal technology to automate and simplify complex and error-prone tasks that distract from practicing law.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced: 10+ years of relevant experience in backend engineering, with a substantial focus on big data platforms
- Technically Proficient: Deep expertise with both relational and non-relational data stores, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Familiarity with JVM-focused tech stacks, particularly server-side Kotlin and gRPC
- Systems Designer: Demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining (through operational observability) high-availability, high-performance, distributed data processing systems — maybe you’ve read “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”
- Delivery-oriented: Proven ability to deliver well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code solutions to complex technical challenges
- Tech-agnostic: Experience with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, but are not tightly coupled to a specific stack
- Cloud-oriented: You’ve delivered data platform software solutions (including designing, implementing, and operating) in the cloud
Desirable
- Advanced Data Processing: Experience with algorithmically intensive data engines operating on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets
- Multi-Tenancy Architectures: Experience with designing, modifying, and operating multi-tenant systems
- Security Best Practices: Familiarity with security best practices in system design and development
- Polyglot Experience: Demonstrated proficiency in multiple programming languages, including but not limited to Python
What the job involves
- You will be a key contributor for our Ediscovery Data Platform and responsible for both hands-on technical work to improve existing systems as well as guiding long-term enhancement and evolution in this space
- You’ll be successful by ensuring that the data platform of our Ediscovery product can meet current demand and scale to meet future needs
- Through your contributions towards both implementation and system design, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our distributed data platform to meet the growing demands of our business, ensuring high availability and high performance
- Deliver Software: Engage actively in coding, code reviews, and technical discussions, ensuring high-quality output
- Architect Systems: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of scalable, high-performance data architectures, ensuring seamless operation of our big data platform at petabyte scale
- Create Big-Data Solutions: Craft and optimize data pipelines, incorporating orchestrated scale-out architectures that leverage serverless and containerized compute for a balance of cost, latency, and duration
- Optimize Performance: Continuously enhance system performance, focusing on transactional or eventually consistent stores that provide well-encapsulated domain object semantics
- Provide Technical Mentorship: Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers, promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions
- Some of Our Technology Stack:
- Cloud Provider: AWS
- DSL-based Search: multiple large-scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL)
- Persistence: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, SQL data stores, others
- Event Bus: Kafka
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
DISCO is a legaltech leveraging cloud computing and AI to enhance compliance, dispute resolution, and investigations, thereby optimizing outcomes for legal teams and their clients. its suite of tools, including case builders, review platforms, and e-discovery solutions, is designed to minimize errors and better align with established legal practices compared to traditional e-discovery tools.
In response to the growing need for independent brands to reduce reliance on major tech platforms for customer acquisition, DISCO was founded. This initiative comes at a pivotal time as businesses increasingly shift online, driving up the costs associated with acquiring customers through digital channels. Consequently, brands are actively seeking alternative methods to expand their customer base.
DISCO has experienced significant growth as a result of this demand, boasting a clientele of approximately 1,000 firms, including a majority of the prestigious Am Law 200. Funding has positioned the company for further expansion into European and Asian markets. With ongoing refinements to its AI software, DISCO is poised to maintain steady progress in an ever-evolving landscape.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2020
$60m
LATE VC
Jan 2019
$83m
SERIES E
Total funding: $193.8m
Company benefits
- Start-up culture
- Open PTO
- Growth opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision, 401(k)
Company values
- Meaningful impact: We strive to ensure that every employee is connected to our mission and we believe that every employee is capable of driving meaningful impact to our customers and communities
- All-in: We build bridges across teams and projects and value all opinions, perspectives, and ideas - no matter who or where they come from. We all work across functions as needed to ensure that we win as a team
- Grit & grace: We are resilient and adaptable and capable of quickly changing in response to new problems, ideas, or data. We balance our grit with humility and empathy, giving grace and respect to our employees, communities, partners, and customers
- Innovation: We approach problems with what we call the "inventor's spirit", the idea that you should not accept the world as it is, but instead seek ways in which it could be made better. We are curious, observe sharply, spot issues, and solve problems from the ground up. We debate and strive to create an environment in which the best ideas win
- Craft: We are deeply passionate about our craft and believe in the importance of striving for excellence and improvement every day, whether that craft is software engineering, sales, or any other aspect of our work. We continuously look for opportunities to become better at what we do
Company HQ
Congress Avenue Historic District, Austin, TX
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Founders
Kiwi Camara
(CEO)They studied at Harvard Law School and hold a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford. Previously a Partner at the law firm Camara & Sibley from 2009-2013.
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