Clickhouse

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Germany

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Database Systems, Cloud Computing, Software DevelopmentIndustries

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.

Note: This position can be based remotely in any country ClickHouse has a hiring presence.

We are committed to providing our customers with reliable and secure services at ClickHouse. To continue this, we are building out our Site Reliability Engineering team. As one of the first joiners to our Reliability Engineering Team at ClickHouse, you will be responsible for building and leading processes to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure that runs ClickHouse databases. You will collaborate with different teams like Control Plane, Dataplane, Core, Security, Support and Operations and guide them to design and implement scalable, secure, highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems. You will also own the areas of incident management and response, post-mortem analysis including running blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement of our ClickHouse services. You will be leveraging your software engineering expertise to develop software platforms and tools to optimize the operational and engineering efficiencies of ClickHouse Cloud. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud.

What will you do?

  • Collaborate with various engineering teams in ClickHouse to design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available systems for ClickHouse.
  • Establish and manage service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) for ClickHouse Cloud.
  • Ensure all the infrastructure components in ClickHouse Cloud (including Dataplane, Control Plane and ClickHouse Core) have monitoring and alerting in place to ensure timely detection and resolution of incidents.
  • Enhance and refine incident response processes and post-mortem analysis for any outages in ClickHouse Cloud including working with the support team to communicate to the impacted customers.
  • Continuously improve the reliability and performance of our ClickHouse services.
  • Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities.
  • Manage on-call processes to respond to performance and reliability issues, and establish best practices for coordinating escalation to resolve issues and minimize downtime.

About you

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related field.
  • Previous experience using ClickHouse in production.
  • Coding experience with Go and/or Python.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL, particularly ClickHouse is a major plus.
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
  • Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet.
  • You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
  • You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
  • You thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a global team, and you see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
  • You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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Compensation

For roles based in the United States

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering
Cloud Infrastructure
OLAP Databases
SQL
Incident Management
Post-mortem Analysis
Software Engineering
Distributed Systems
Scalability
High Availability
Performance Optimization
Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

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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