Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
ClickHouse6 months ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse Core.
- Create and improve metrics and alerts to identify and prevent production problems before they affect customers.
- Investigate common customer problems, identify root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and recommend improvements.
- Enhance incident response and postmortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages, including blameless postmortems and customer communications.
- Plan, enable, and drive chaos engineering initiatives across engineering teams.
- Manage on-call processes and establish escalation best practices to resolve reliability and performance issues while minimizing customer impact.
- Lead reliability, availability, scalability, and performance improvement processes for ClickHouse Core.
- Own engineering escalation management, response, investigations, and continuous operational improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least 5 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 experience is a major plus.
- Scripting experience with Shell or Python and the ability to read and understand C++ code.
- Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a global team.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment, with the position available in countries where ClickHouse has a hiring presence.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options for new team members.
- Flexible time off in the United States and generous leave entitlement in other countries.
- Remote employees receive home office setup support.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide global offsites.
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.