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 providing engineering leverage so that we can scale the business. As a Platform Software Engineer on our Shared Services platform team, you’ll help build systems that are primarily used by other engineering teams throughout the DISCO Product Delivery group. The team builds tools, libraries, and distributed systems that enable DISCO developers to be efficient and consistent. 

We are hiring people that approach design and development from a systems perspective and aspire to craft their systems well. A great candidate can deliver real customer value while pursuing architecture quality in availability, scalability, interoperability, modifiability, performance, security, and testability.

What You'll Do

Building and operating platform-wide services such as:

• Highly scalable and crazy performant systems that will be used by all of engineering.
• Event Bus and Event Sourcing capabilities that provide business and engineering leverage and efficiencies.
• Orchestrated scaleout data pipelines that can leverage serverless and containerized compute that balances cost, latency, and duration.
• Algorithmically intensive data engines that operate on streaming, large, or multi-tenant datasets.
• Analytics engine that processes billions of events to produce metrics used by our products.
• Identify engineering friction that slows engineering velocity and collaboratively design solutions that realize platform-wide efficiencies.

Who You Are

• 3+ years of relevant experience. 
• Experienced with some amount of ‘Big Data’ technologies such as: ElasticSearch, NoSql Stores, Kafka, Columnar Databases, DataFlow or Pipeline Systems, Graph DataStores.
• Experienced with using common infrastructure services like Enterprise Message Bus, Configuration Services, Toggles, Logging Systems, Telemetry for Observability (e.g. OpenTelemetry).
• Experienced using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with an emphasis on automation tools like Terraform, Jenkins, CodePipeline.
• Experienced in building APIs and Data Models, including how to map to storage systems.
• Familiar with multiple software stacks, have opinions and preferences, and not “married to” a specific stack.

Even Better If You Have...

• Experience with operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience modifying and operating multi-tenant systems.
• Knowledge about algorithm development for intensive pipeline processing systems.
• An understanding of how to develop from a security perspective.
• An understanding of how to identify, select, and extend 3rd party components (Commercial or Open Source) that provide operational leverage but do not constrain product and engineering creativity.
• Experience using feature or release toggles as a code branching strategy.

Shared Service Platform’s Technology Stack

• Cloud Provider - AWS: EC2, Lambda, Aurora, ECS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, CloudFormation, CodePipeline, EKS, Elasticache etc.
• Event Bus: Kafka and Schema Registry
• Deployment: Terraform, Docker (via ECS), Consul for App Config, Service Discovery, Shared Secrets, Feature Toggles
• Visibility: ELK Stack for logging, Datadog, New Relic
• Programming Languages: Python, Kotlin
• 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.