Site Reliability Engineer - Observability
Second Front SystemsSalary not specified
Full Time
Senior (5 to 8 years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, Cloud Computing, DatabaseIndustries
Requirements
- 5+ years building and running production systems at scale
- Proficiency in Golang
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Comfortable working with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools
- Experience with ClickHouse preferred
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems that power observability across ClickHouse Cloud
- Own reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency of our telemetry pipeline and storage systems
- Take part in the on-call rotation and help drive root-cause resolution and long-term fixes
- Build tooling and automation to eliminate repetitive operational work
- Help shape the roadmap for observability by identifying bottlenecks and scaling challenges
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to improve their observability posture
- Contribute to design discussions, architecture reviews, and mentor teammates
Skills
Key technologies and capabilities for this role
Questions & Answers
Common questions about this position
Is this position remote?
Yes, this is a remote position with a remote, async-friendly team.
What are the key requirements for this role?
Candidates need 5+ years building and running production systems at scale, proficiency in Golang, experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, and Terraform or similar IaC tools, comfort with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure), and experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar tools.
What is the salary or compensation for this role?
This information is not specified in the job description.
What is the work environment like at ClickHouse?
The team operates in fast-paced environments, emphasizes hands-on incident response, automation, and collaboration with product and infrastructure teams in a remote, async-friendly setting.
What makes a strong candidate for this Cloud Software Engineer role?
Strong candidates demonstrate a bias for action and ownership, excellent production debugging and problem-solving skills, strong communication, experience balancing performance, reliability, and cost, and the ability to iterate quickly on MVPs.
Clickhouse
High-speed column-oriented database management system
About Clickhouse
ClickHouse provides a high-speed, column-oriented database management system designed for developers and businesses that manage large-scale data. Its primary product processes analytical queries quickly by storing data from the same columns together, making it significantly faster than traditional row-oriented databases, especially in Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) scenarios. ClickHouse stands out from competitors by offering a free, open-source database that can be deployed on local machines or in the cloud, along with a fully managed service on platforms like AWS, GCP, and Microsoft Azure. The company's goal is to deliver a cost-effective solution that simplifies data management for its clients, as evidenced by user feedback highlighting substantial cost savings.
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2021Year Founded
$291.8MTotal Funding
SERIES_BCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
201-500Employees
Benefits
Health Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
Remote Work Options
Stock Options
Home Office Stipend
Risks
Redpanda Serverless poses a competitive threat in real-time data processing.
Integration challenges with PeerDB may delay expected benefits.
Dependency on Supabase could pose operational risks.
Differentiation
ClickHouse's column-oriented design offers superior speed for analytical queries.
The open-source model allows flexible deployment across various environments.
Integration with Grafana enhances data visualization capabilities.
Upsides
Partnership with Alibaba Cloud boosts presence in the Chinese market.
Acquisition of PeerDB enhances real-time analytics capabilities.
Launch of ClickPipes improves data processing efficiency for real-time updates.
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