Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
ClickHouse6 months ago
Responsibilities
- Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse Core
- Create and improve metrics and alerts to identify and prevent production problems
- Investigate common customer problems, determine root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and suggest improvements
- Enhance incident response and postmortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages
- Plan and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams
- Manage on-call processes and establish escalation best practices to minimize customer impact
- Collaborate with Control Plane, Dataplane, Security, Support, and Operations teams to improve customer deployments
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field
- At least five years of experience in reliability engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering
- Experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases in production
- Strong understanding of distributed database internals and SQL; ClickHouse expertise is a major plus
- Scripting experience with Shell or Python and the ability to read and understand C++ code
- Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively on a global team
Benefits
- Remote-friendly and flexible work environment, with eligibility in the Netherlands, UK, United States, or Germany
- 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 gatherings
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.