Clickhouse

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Australia

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Database Management SystemsIndustries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote (any country with ClickHouse hiring presence)
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Not specified

ClickHouse is the company behind the popular open-source, high-performance columnar OLAP database management system. They offer real-time analytics solutions that are 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. They have a strong community and are now focusing on delivering cloud-first solutions. They are committed to providing reliable and secure services and are building out their Site Reliability Engineering team. This role is an opportunity to make a significant impact on ClickHouse Cloud's scale and performance.

Requirements

  • Software engineering expertise
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Understanding of service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs)
  • Experience with monitoring and alerting
  • Incident management and response experience
  • Post-mortem analysis experience (including blameless postmortems)
  • Ability to collaborate with various engineering teams

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with various engineering teams in ClickHouse to design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available systems for ClickHouse Cloud.
  • Establish and manage service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud.
  • Ensure all infrastructure components in ClickHouse Cloud (including Dataplane, Control Plane, and ClickHouse Core) have monitoring and alerting in place.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for any outages in ClickHouse Cloud, collaborating with the support team to communicate to impacted customers.
  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of ClickHouse services.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering.

Company Information

  • About ClickHouse: We are the company behind the popular open-source, high-performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers. With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we. We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

Skills

Software engineering
Distributed systems
SLOs and SLAs
Monitoring and alerting
Incident management
Post-mortem analysis
Collaboration
Chaos engineering

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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