Principal Software Engineer - Postgres
ClickHouse3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of advanced features involving storage, replication, query execution, and performance optimization.
- Contribute to and extend PostgreSQL internals to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Prototype and build PostgreSQL extensions that integrate with cloud-native infrastructure.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and cloud platform teams to deliver robust developer experiences.
- Profile and optimize database performance using low-level instrumentation and benchmarking.
- Provide technical leadership, establish engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and drive projects from concept through production.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building systems software in C, C++, or Rust.
- Go experience is a plus.
- Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL or other database engine internals, including storage, execution, or replication subsystems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, operating systems, and performance engineering.
- Proven ability to ship large-scale systems or core infrastructure features end-to-end.
- Experience contributing to open-source databases or similarly complex systems is highly desirable.
- Ability to work independently, solve problems pragmatically, and operate in a high-autonomy, high-velocity environment.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work environment across more than 20 countries
- Employer healthcare contributions
- Company stock options
- Flexible time off in the US and generous leave in other countries
- $500 home office setup benefit for remote employees
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites and 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.