Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
ClickHouse6 months ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Benchmark system and database performance, perform capacity sizing, and optimize systems
- Troubleshoot applications, server errors, and logs and triage issues
- Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks
- Partner with core development, cloud, and security teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance
- Plan and drive Chaos Engineering initiatives across engineering teams
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools for systematically running chaos experiments and measuring their impact
- Study software resilience, operational, and delivery problems and extend backend systems to support Chaos Engineering techniques
- Observe running systems and prioritize ways to test and improve their resilience
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architecture deployment
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
- Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects with multiple experienced engineers
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as EC2
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and production debugging skills
- Interest in efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment across more than 20 countries
- Employer healthcare contributions
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries
- $500 home office setup for remote employees
- Opportunities to attend company-wide global offsites
Tech Stack
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.