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We are a team of 1000 and growing with offices in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Brooklyn, Chicago, Washington DC, and more. Seattle is our home and headquarters. We’ve been successful in this unique business for over 30 years and we continue to advance our technology and business processes to remain years ahead of what our competition is able to offer. Our focus is to expand our technology lead, acquire and integrate less efficient competitors, and tap into new segments through an integrated inbound marketing and sales approach.\nJob Overview:\n ABC Legal is looking for a detail-oriented Database Engineer to help own, improve, and scale the PostgreSQL database layer behind Skye, our core legal-services platform. Skye supports high-volume process serving, court filing, operational workflows, customer facing applications, mobile field work, integrations, reporting, billing, and automation. 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