Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform
ClickHouse2 hours ago
Base Salary
$141k - $208k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems for ingesting, processing, and storing telemetry at very high scale.
- Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations, resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes to completion.
- Build software and automation that eliminates repetitive operational work and improves platform operability.
- Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for future scale.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and service teams across ClickHouse.
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews and raise engineering quality across the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Strong proficiency in Go.
- Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with ClickHouse, high-throughput ingestion, streaming, queueing, storage systems, multi-tenant cloud services, or infrastructure performance and cost optimization is a bonus.
- Experience with TypeScript is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly, flexible work environment at a globally distributed company operating in over 20 countries.
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Company stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Opportunities to connect with colleagues through company-wide 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.