Published: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:50:16 GMT
Position: Senior Cloud Performance Engineer at ClickHouse
Company Overview:
Founded in 2009, ClickHouse is a leading provider of open-source column-oriented database systems. Our mission is to become the fastest OLAP database globally, empowering users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries. We prioritize speed in managing escalating data volumes and have a global reach, with clients such as Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more. Our ClickHouse Cloud platform is available through open-source or on major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.
About the Team:
The Cloud Performance Engineering team at ClickHouse is responsible for building our cloud-native ClickHouse Cloud platform, which is set to transform the OLAP space. We are seeking exceptional performance engineers with a proven track record in understanding the performance limits of distributed databases and creating tools for measuring performance and scalability in complex systems. The ideal candidate will have a background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis, and capacity management. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud.
Key Responsibilities:
– Conduct system performance benchmarking, database performance analysis, capacity sizing, and optimization.
– Troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs, and triage accordingly.
– Provide recommendations for configuration tuning and optimizations to address performance bottlenecks.
– Collaborate closely with ClickHouse core development team, cloud team, and security team to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.
– Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across engineering teams, based on internal priorities.
– Develop, deploy, and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure their impact.
– Gain a deep understanding of large-scale distributed systems.
– Study problems in software resilience, operational processes, and delivery spaces.
– Extend our entire backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system.
– Observe running systems and prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them.
Qualifications:
– 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience in building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
– Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar languages.
– Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and deployment of distributed system architectures.
– Experience in developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
– Proven track record of leading and shipping large-scale technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
– Expertise in a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
– Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
– Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging experience.
– Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
– Thrives in a fast-paced environment and sees themselves as a partner with the business, with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
– High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
Compensation:
For roles based in the United States, our typical starting salary ranges are listed above, 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 [email protected].
Perks:
– Flexible work environment – ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly, currently operating in 20 countries.
– Healthcare – Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
– Equity in the company – Every new team member receives stock options.
– Time off – Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
– $500 home office setup for remote employees.
– Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connections and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
– Culture – As part of our first 500 employees, you will play a crucial role in shaping our culture. Learn more about our values here and check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to stay updated on what’s happening at ClickHouse.
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