Senior Full Stack Engineer

Position Overview

ClickHouse is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join their team and help build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with a strong focus on developer experience. The role involves shaping the product by owning and building key features, engaging with the open-source community, and tackling complex technical challenges to enhance the HyperDX platform.

About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse is a leader in the open-source column-oriented database system, aiming to be the fastest OLAP database globally. The company enables users to generate real-time analytical reports using SQL queries, focusing on speed for escalating data volumes. ClickHouse Cloud is utilized by global enterprises such as Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, and HubSpot. It is available as open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

ClickHouse is revolutionizing Observability for Developers with the integration of HyperDX, an open-source platform designed to transform telemetry data into actionable insights. HyperDX aims to seamlessly combine logs, metrics, traces, and session replays for faster root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product: Own and build key features, focusing on frontend and backend systems that streamline debugging and monitoring for developers.
• Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our roadmap.
• Tackle technical challenges: Supercharge HyperDX to process petabytes of observability data efficiently. Develop groundbreaking analysis tools and scale the cloud-hosted platform for a growing customer base.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience (experience building developer tools is a bonus).
• Strong TypeScript skills (Next.js frontend and Express backend).
• Proficiency in at least one front-end framework (e.g., React, Vue.js, Angular).
• Proficiency in SQL for query generation on Clickhouse.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• A passion for open source and the developer community.
• Experience creating developer tooling and a keen understanding of designing for developers.
• Creative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Driven to ship features that make a tangible impact for customers.
• Eager to learn and push boundaries, embracing new technologies and approaches.
• Passion for software and the desire to create with minimal interruptions.

Bonus Points

• Expertise in distributed systems and event ingestion pipelines.
• Experience working with columnar databases.
• Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for improvement.
• Familiarity with additional languages like Rust or PHP for building integrations.

Compensation

• New York Area / San Francisco Area: $139,000 - $209,500 USD
• General US Remote: $120,000 - $175,000 USD
• Los Angeles, CA / Washington, DC: $125,000 - $188,550 USD

Note: Compensation within these ranges depends on various factors including candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements, and geography.

Application Instructions

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