Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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.

About the Team

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team builds and manages the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end. This includes compute, networking, security, and a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture that provides a reliable and scalable managed ClickHouse experience for ClickHouse Cloud customers. Our team is looking for highly skilled and experienced cloud infrastructure software engineers to join our team, who will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining our infrastructure.

What will you do?

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management.
• Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering.
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service.
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure.

About you

• Experience: 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Programming Languages: Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language.
• Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Cloud Infrastructure Services: Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Edge/Service Mesh: Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio.
• Project Leadership: Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Networking & Security: Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers. Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
• Soft Skills: You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team. You are a strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• Mindset: You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, and 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.

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location. The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location. If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at paytransparency@clickhouse.com.

Perks

• Flexible work environment: ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare: Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity: Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off: Flexible time off in the US, generous.