Senior Cloud Performance Engineer
ClickHouse6 months ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Benchmark system and database performance, perform performance analysis, size capacity, and optimize systems
- Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage issues
- Recommend configuration tuning and optimizations for performance bottlenecks
- Partner with ClickHouse core development, cloud, security, and other engineering teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance
- Plan, enable, and drive Chaos Engineering initiatives across engineering teams
- Develop, deploy, and manage tools for systematically running chaos experiments and measuring their impact
- Study software resilience, operational, and delivery problems and extend backend systems to support Chaos Engineering techniques
- Observe running systems and prioritize innovative ways to disrupt and test them
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Software development experience in Go, C, C++, Java, or a similar language
- Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and distributed system architectures
- Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
- Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects with experienced engineers
- Expertise with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as EC2
- Strong production debugging, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and cross-engineering-team partnership skills
- Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance
Benefits
- Remote-friendly flexible work environment with operations 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 participate in company-wide global offsites
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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.