Senior DevOps Engineer
SGNLSalary not specified
Full Time
Senior (5 to 8 years)
Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, Cloud Computing, Data AnalyticsIndustries
Requirements
- 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production-grade systems
- Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning
- Deep hands-on experience across AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure; comfortable navigating multi-cloud topologies
- Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure
- Strong Go development skills (or willingness to write and own production Go code)
- Familiar with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents
- Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement in service reliability
- Founder’s mentality — hands-on, resourceful, and willing to dive deep to get things done; pride in hard work, autonomy, and shipping impactful systems
Responsibilities
- Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration — upgrades, patching, maintenance, and scaling
- Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments
- Contribute Go-based tooling and services that improve automation, observability, and developer experience
- Own observability and monitoring, ensuring robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments
- Drive incident management and postmortem practices that strengthen reliability and learning loops
- Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams to improve service operability
- Mentor and enable engineers, helping the team scale effectively as customer adoption grows
Skills
Key technologies and capabilities for this role
Questions & Answers
Common questions about this position
What experience level is required for this Senior Infrastructure Engineer role?
The role requires 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production-grade systems.
What are the key technical skills needed for this position?
Key skills include solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning; deep hands-on experience with AWS and exposure to GCP and Azure; proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure; strong Go development skills; and familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry.
Is this a remote position, or is there a location requirement?
This information is not specified in the job description.
What is the salary or compensation for this role?
This information is not specified in the job description.
What kind of impact will I have in this role, and how can I stand out as a candidate?
You'll lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration, design automation across multi-cloud environments, contribute Go-based tooling, own observability, and mentor engineers in a high-impact, hands-on role. Strong candidates will demonstrate 7+ years of relevant experience, deep Postgres and multi-cloud expertise, and a reliability-focused mindset with SLOs and incident response.
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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