Database Reliability Engineer - Core Team
ClickHouse6 months ago
Remote, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Continuously improve the reliability, performance, availability, and scalability of ClickHouse Core.
- Create and improve production metrics and alerts to identify and prevent customer-impacting problems.
- Investigate recurring customer issues, determine root causes, submit bug fixes and issue reports, and suggest improvements.
- Enhance incident response and postmortem processes for ClickHouse Core outages, including customer communications with Support and Cloud teams.
- Plan, enable, and drive chaos initiatives across Engineering teams.
- Manage on-call processes and establish escalation best practices to resolve reliability and performance issues while minimizing customer impact.
- Build and lead reliability processes as an early member of the Core Reliability Engineering team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- At least five years of experience in Reliability Engineering, QA, or customer-facing engineering.
- Production experience operating ClickHouse or other SQL databases.
- 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 work collaboratively in a global, fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment; this position can be based remotely in the Netherlands, UK, or Germany.
- Employer healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide global gatherings and 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.