Senior Cloud Engineer
ClickHouse2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platforms for regulated and mission-critical environments.
- Build deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and disconnected environments.
- Collaborate with Dataplane and ClickHouse Core teams to maintain software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
- Solve scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
- Deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments with high availability, replication, and backup.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
- Automate infrastructure building, scaling, troubleshooting, deployment, and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Optimize database performance and storage architecture for on-premises, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
- Implement secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
- Maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
- Troubleshoot database performance, security, and operational issues.
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
- Experience with ClickHouse or relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes tools including Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, and service mesh technologies.
- Experience with containerized deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-premises equivalents.
- Proficiency in Go or Python for automation and integration.
- Experience with secure, regulated, restricted-network, or air-gapped environments is a strong plus.
- Strong production debugging, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, ownership, and accountability skills.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment in a globally distributed company operating in over 20 countries.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options for new team members.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraAWSAzureClickHouseDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmIstioKubernetesMongoDBMySQLOpenShiftPostgreSQLPythonTerraform
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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.