Senior Software Engineer - Postgres
ClickHouse5 months ago
Remote, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services that orchestrate and manage database clusters in ClickHouse Cloud.
- Extend the Ruby, Go, and TypeScript 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, debugging workflows, performance, and reliability for database services.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams and participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call rotations.
- Identify opportunities, drive execution, and deliver meaningful impact with autonomy.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience, ideally building or operating database or cloud platform systems.
- Deep knowledge 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, and automation tools including Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
- Understanding of distributed systems, data replication, and service orchestration patterns.
- Ability to contribute to both greenfield development and operational ownership, including debugging and on-call work.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a pragmatic, detail-oriented, and highly autonomous working style.
Benefits
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment across more than 20 countries
- Employer healthcare contributions
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous time-off entitlement in other countries
- $500 home office setup for remote employees
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings
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.