Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - AI/ML
ClickHouse3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement AI-powered features across backend inference services and frontend interfaces in ClickHouse Cloud
- Create robust, scalable APIs connecting ClickHouse database capabilities with AI/ML inference systems and internal or external AI services
- Build and maintain integrations with the broader AI/ML ecosystem, frameworks, tools, and standards
- Integrate models into production systems with monitoring, versioning, observability, and evaluation
- Participate in the daytime on-call rotation
- Design and implement developer tools, SDKs, and documentation for ClickHouse AI/ML capabilities
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in production environments
- Backend development experience in TypeScript or Python, or in Python, Go, or TypeScript, with a focus on API design and service architecture
- Exposure to working directly with AI/ML technologies
- Ability to drive features from concept to production with minimal supervision
- Ability to collaborate effectively and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Preferred experience integrating and deploying AI/ML models in production, including inference APIs and vector databases
- Preferred familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP, particularly AI/ML deployment services
- Preferred understanding of database systems and data processing pipelines
- ClickHouse experience is a significant plus
Benefits
- Remote-friendly, globally distributed work environment operating in over 20 countries
- Employer healthcare contributions
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous leave entitlement in other countries
- $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
- Opportunities to attend company-wide global gatherings
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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.