Senior Software Engineer - Postgres
ClickHouse3 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services that orchestrate and manage database clusters in ClickHouse Cloud.
- Extend the Ruby, Go, and TypeScript platform control plane to support new Postgres capabilities.
- Contribute to PostgreSQL extensions and C, C++, or Rust data plane agents.
- Build automation and tooling for cluster provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management.
- Develop APIs and integrations exposing Postgres functionality to customers and internal systems.
- Improve observability, deployment safety, and debugging workflows for database services.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams on operational excellence, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and on-call rotations.
- Identify opportunities, drive execution, and deliver meaningful impact with autonomy.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, ideally building or operating database or cloud platform systems.
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL configuration, extensions, operations, and performance tuning.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Ruby, Go, Rust, C, or Python, with willingness to work across languages.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, APIs, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of distributed systems, data replication, and service orchestration patterns.
- Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and comfortable with greenfield development and operational ownership.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to take initiative, move quickly, and own outcomes.
Benefits
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment at a globally distributed company operating in over 20 countries.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous leave entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup benefit for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings and offsites.
Tech Stack
About ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a fast, open-source columnar database built for real-time data processing and analytics at scale. ClickHouse Cloud delivers the query speed and concurrency that applications demanding instant insight from large volumes of data require. As AI agents become more embedded in software, generating higher query volumes at tighter latency, ClickHouse provides a high-throughput, low-latency engine purpose-built for that workload.