Cloud Software Engineer - Observability Platform

📍 United States

USD 141,000-230,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote

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Details

ClickHouse is seeking an experienced software engineer to join its Observability organization, working across the Observability Platform and Internal Observability teams. These teams build and operate the systems behind ClickHouse's internal observability and ClickStack Cloud, processing trillions of events per day at throughput reaching hundreds of millions of events per second.

The role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production operations. You will build and operate systems, respond to incidents, and turn recurring operational problems into durable software and automation. Relevant backgrounds include backend engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
Participate in the on-call rotation, help resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes through completion.
Build software and automation that eliminate repetitive operational work and improve platform operability.
Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for the next stage of scale.
Work closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams across ClickHouse.
Contribute to architecture and design reviews and help raise engineering quality across the team.
Take ownership and proactively improve systems.
Debug unfamiliar distributed systems in production.
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between reliability, performance, delivery speed, and cost.
Communicate clearly in a remote, async-friendly environment.
Deliver incrementally, validate solutions in production, and improve them based on evidence.
Address the underlying causes of operational problems rather than repeatedly treating symptoms.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
Strong proficiency in Go.
Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies.

Bonus Skills

Experience with ClickHouse.
Experience with high-throughput ingestion, streaming, queueing, or storage systems.
Experience building multi-tenant cloud services.
Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost.
Experience with TypeScript.

Benefits

Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
Employer healthcare contributions.
Company stock options for new team members.
Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings and offsites.

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics.