Job Description: Software Engineer, Airgapped Cloud

Salary: $157,000 - (New York Area / San Francisco Area)

Location Type: Not Specified

Employment Type: Not Specified

About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

Join a small, specialized team building ClickHouse's next frontier - secure, airgapped deployments for government and enterprise clients who can't use public cloud. Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design, develop, deploy and secure a ClickHouse Cloud database platform in airgapped environments.

This is an exciting opportunity to architect solutions for environments with zero internet connectivity. This role involves architecting secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions tailored for classified and highly regulated systems. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP and other security frameworks while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less ClickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
• Build novel deployment automation for disconnected systems.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling challenges in classified/regulated environments.
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm Charts, operators and kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale and troubleshoot various infrastructure components which form a part of air-gapped for disconnected operations.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-premise, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, serviceMesh).
• Strong understanding of airgapped architectures and data isolation.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) in government environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python or Go) for automation and integration.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging skills.
• Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and see yourself as a partner with the business, with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

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Company Information

About ClickHouse Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.