DISCO provides a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and governments. Our scalable, integrated solution enables legal departments to easily collect, process and review enterprise data that is relevant or potentially relevant to legal matters.

In 2020, 171 law firms in the 2020 AmLaw 200 used DISCO in the course of legal work on behalf of their clients. More than 800 enterprises, law firms, legal services providers and government organizations are DISCO customers.

Your Impact

Great products need great architecture. This team is focused on ensuring that the “whole” architecture is cared for and guided to a clear, well-encapsulated Platform that embodies market-leading technical capabilities and differentiation -- thereby enabling the DISCO legal tech vision. While we value federation across teams, this horizontal role is an absolute must to ensure our Platform evolves in a strategic way that balances federation and centralization while maximizing leverage across the architecture.

We are hiring people that approach design from a systems perspective and aspire to or help others craft systems well.

What You'll Do

• Define, evolve and drive our Distributed Domain Driven Design architecture and practice (e.g. reference the Uber DOMA article).
• Be the strategy leader or representative for one or more cross-cutting concerns (e.g. Scalability, Security, Availability, Observability, etc.)
• Provide architecture consultation to leverage patterns, existing systems, and buy vs build trade-offs.
• Own or lead big architecture efforts like: Multi-account Cloud Design, Platform Communications “Fabric”, Platform-wide Control Plane, Scalable Analytics and Data Engineering
• Run and further mature our architecture assessments approaches (e.g. think AWS Well-Architected)
• Guide system designs to ensure hardened platform boundaries while knowing when to value clarity over precision to flush out ambiguity. Leveraging patterns and tools such as Architecture styles and Design Patterns.
• Bring innovation and automation to capturing and communicating architectures through documentation. 
• Help shepherd and leverage namespacing strategies across the platform.
• Communicate complex or complicated technical concepts (written and oral) to both technical and non-technical audiences so that we can build consensus when needed.

Who You Are

• 15+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with leveraging common infrastructure services like Enterprise Message Bus, Configuration Services, Toggles, Logging Systems, Telemetry for Observability (e.g. OpenTelemetry).
• Prior experience with several database types including relational, document, search, columnar, or graph.
• Experienced with design, implementation, and operation of data-intensive, distributed systems. (The book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, is a good reference)
• Experienced in API / Data Model Design and Implementation, including how to scale out, make highly available, or map to storage systems.
• Experienced with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, and not “married to” a specific stack.
• Experienced with designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Prior experience dealing with high volume distributed technical architectures with a high cost of failure, i.e. focus on reliability and availability
• Familiar with serverless architecture elements including Lambda, storage, APIs, etc. 
• Prior experience balancing tradeoffs of performance, consistency, and transactional properties

Even Better If You Have...

• Rationalize architecture activities against the bottom line
• Experienced with Agile or have worked across 2 pizza teams type org structure
• Experienced with some amount of asynchronous and streaming technologies 
• Prior experience handling and scaling petabytes of data in an architecture that is write-heavy and processing intensive. 

Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB, ECS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, SageMaker, KMS, CodePipeline, etc.
• DSL-based Search: multiple large-scale Elasticsearch Clusters searched using our Disco Query Language (DQL)
• Event Bus: Kafka and Schema Registry
• 3rd Party Vendors: Redis, Auth0 for Cloud Identity Federation (SSO, SAML, etc)
• AI: MinHash, FastText, Word2Vec, Convolution Neural Nets, Algorithmia (Lambda with GPUs) for training, PyTorch, Recurrent Neural Networks, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Topic Modeling, etc.
• Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets
• Visibility: ELK Stack for logging, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry.io
• Programming Languages: Kotlin (JVM), JavaScript, C#/.NET, Python
• Transport Mechanisms: Protobuf, Avro, HTTP Rest/JSON
• CI/CD: Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub, Artifactory

Why Join DISCO’s Product Delivery Team

We intend to build a multi-billion dollar business and think you should come along for the ride because: 

• We were the first movers to a cloud-based platform that has caused mass disruption within our market.
• Our CEO is a true market visionary. He graduated with a computer science degree at the age of 15 and followed with a JD from Harvard Law School at the age of 19. His unparalleled insights into the fundamental issues in legal and the potential of technology and artificial intelligence to change our market at its core provide the guiding light for DISCO’s long-term strategy.
• We believe that product delivery professionals including product managers, product designers and engineers differ from one another by at least a factor of 10. At DISCO, we only hire the top 1%, pay them well, and with equity, everyone has effectively been getting a raise each and every day. Given our product first mindset, product professionals are very much stars of the show. Our logo, the circle and square, represents the best lawyers and the best product professionals in the world.
• We measure product delivery velocity by dollars of revenue per line of code, vs simply lines of code. This drives a very thoughtful and deliberate product design and development process that ensures we’re going to make money when we ship products. We hire many more product managers and designers per engineer than most companies to ensure that our engineers have a disambiguated product intent when they are building.
• As a rule, we don’t commit to external product delivery dates as we believe that unnecessarily constrains our creativity from both a product and technology point of view.
• At DISCO respect isn’t earned at DISCO it is assumed. Good humans inherently treat everyone respectfully. This is a very important concept at DISCO.
• Given the high caliber of talent, the cutting-edge cloud-based technology stack, and thoughtful and novel product and design approach, you’ll find yourself learning at a rate you’ve not likely experienced in your career. Given that we only hire professionals that are passionate about their craft, you’ll truly enjoy building a great software product and get in the best “career shape” of your life.
• Over the next 4 years, we’ll be growing our product delivery organization. There will be incredible growth opportunities along the way.
• We use the “2 Pizza Team” organization design where small autonomous teams own a piece of a product or platform and ship software at rates comparable to a very lean and scrappy startup. We achieve consistency across these teams in the areas of design, product-wide use cases and technical concerns through a strategically focused set of overlay functions.
• Finally, while we’re an incredibly fast-growing organization, as a rule, we do not work crazy long hours. We believe in continuous product delivery, continuous product planning and design, continuous regular sleep schedules, continuous regular vacation, and continuous fun if you’re passionate about your craft.

If you want to win while getting better than you’ve ever been, come to DISCO.