Senior Cloud Software Engineer - AutoScaling
ClickHouse6 months ago
Base Salary
$133k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a cloud-native database platform on top of the public cloud
- Develop and maintain vertical and horizontal autoscaling capabilities
- Work on the in-house Kubernetes operator supporting autoscaling
- Improve the metrics pipeline and develop algorithms for autoscaling statistics and recommendations
- Collaborate with the ClickHouse core development team and data plane teams on autoscaling use cases and infrastructure improvements
- Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Experience building Kubernetes operators with controller runtime
- Production experience with Go, C++, or Java
- Experience with PagerDuty on-call operations, production debugging, and troubleshooting
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as EC2
- Experience with data storage, ingestion, and transformation tools such as Spark or Kafka
- Python experience, including uv and FastAPI, is preferred
- Data science experience with Pandas, NumPy, or similar tools is preferred
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams
Benefits
- Remote-friendly, globally distributed work environment operating in over 20 countries
- Employer contributions toward healthcare
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries
- $500 home office setup for remote employees
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureC++ClickHouseFastAPIGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesNumPyPandasPython
About ClickHouse
ClickHouse builds an open-source, columnar OLAP database and a managed cloud service for teams that need real-time analytics at scale. The company monetizes through ClickHouse Cloud and commercial support for enterprises running analytics, observability, and AI workloads. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is privately held and serves as the primary commercial steward of the ClickHouse project.