Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

ClickHouse is a leading provider of open-source column-oriented database systems, focused on speed and real-time analytics. The company empowers users to generate analytical reports through SQL queries, managing escalating data volumes. ClickHouse Cloud is utilized by enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

About the Team

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team builds and manages the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end. This includes compute, networking, security, and a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture that provides a reliable and scalable managed ClickHouse experience for ClickHouse Cloud customers. The team is seeking skilled and experienced cloud infrastructure software engineers to design, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
• Work closely with the ClickHouse core database development team and security team, and partner with them to produce the SAS offering.
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service.
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Programming Languages: Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language.
• Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Kubernetes: Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Service Mesh/Edge: Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio.
• Leadership: Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Networking & Security: Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Security Knowledge: Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team.
• Problem-Solving: A strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• Passion: Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.

Application Instructions

• Not specified. (Please refer to ClickHouse's careers page for application instructions.)