About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to build and maintain a highly secure, available, and performant internal platform at Clio. This role will empower all Clions to securely build tooling and engage with LLMs, unlocking their velocity. The ideal candidate will collaborate organization-wide to transform core systems or processes and “lead from the front” by directly implementing, triaging, and solving problems.
Responsibilities
- Author, review, and ship both code and infrastructure-as-code to create and maintain Clio’s internal platform.
- Analyze Clio's platform use cases, strengths, weaknesses, and infrastructure gaps to deliver impactful solutions that elevate operational excellence.
- Work with senior leadership across the organization to evolve our internal strategy for LLM use and build the necessary guardrails and observability to empower it.
- Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers and individual contributors.
- Partner with Clions and our internal tooling teams to support them in ensuring all of our internal tools meet a high bar for security, performance, reliability, availability and change velocity.
- Train and advocate for the responsible use of the internal platform across Clio.
- Work closely with the recruiting/people team to actively recruit and hire top talent to support Clio’s ambitious growth plans for our infrastructure and development teams.
Requirements
- Experienced senior engineering leader who is still comfortable pushing code.
- Eager adopter of LLM tooling and experienced user of frontier models and related technologies (MCP, agentic harnesses, agent guardrails).
- Experienced at managing across and up the organization as you define, communicate, and champion a long-term strategic roadmap for our internal platform to unlock organizational velocity and scale.
- Adept at managing and mentoring high-performing teams, nurturing talent, and guiding individuals toward professional growth and development.
- Proven track record of maintaining services and systems.
- Experienced in crafting long-term strategies and managing technical roadmaps that pave the way for future growth.
- Capable of running agile organizations at scale and with a sense of urgency to deliver quality software to solve customer problems.
- Demonstrated experience in promoting positive culture and diversity throughout a large engineering organization.
Skills
- LLM tooling
- frontier models
- agentic harnesses
- agent guardrails
- infrastructure-as-code
- security
- performance
- reliability
- availability
- change velocity
- agile organizations
Location
- Vancouver
- Calgary
- Toronto
- Dublin
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 214,400 to 268,000 to 321,600
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salary
- Top-tier health benefits
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- $2000 annual counseling benefit
- RRSP matching
- RESP contribution
- Clioversary recognition program
About the Company
- 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.
- We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
- We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
- Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
