Release Engineer

at ClickHouse
📍 Washington, United States
📍 Los Angeles, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 New York City, United States
📍 United States
USD 125,600-232,000 per year
MIDDLE
✅ Remote ✅ On-site

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Software Development @ 5 Go @ 3 Kubernetes @ 3 GCP @ 3 CI/CD @ 3 Distributed Systems @ 5 AWS @ 3 Azure @ 3 Communication @ 3 Debugging @ 6 LLM @ 3

Details

The Developer Productivity team builds internal tools and support systems to improve engineer productivity across ClickHouse. The team focuses on CI/CD, end-to-end test automation, an internal CLI for ClickHouse Cloud, and rollout automation for upgrading thousands of ClickHouse clusters using frameworks such as Temporal.io. This role emphasizes tooling, automation, and hands-on execution to support continuous delivery of the ClickHouse Cloud platform and requires close collaboration with core database and cloud infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build robust, scalable automation and processes for rollouts and end-to-end tests
  • Improve and extend the internal command line tool
  • Work closely with cloud and core database teams to identify areas of improvement for internal tooling
  • Coordinate and execute technical steps to deploy, validate, and monitor major version upgrades in ClickHouse Cloud
  • Educate and support other teams using internal tools
  • Participate in on-call rotation and investigate issues in ClickHouse Cloud production environments

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
  • Software development experience in Go (or experience with another programming language and willingness to learn Go)
  • Passion for developer experience and automation
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams
  • Strong problem solving and production debugging skills
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and partnering with the business
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
  • Experience with ClickHouse preferred

Compensation

  • New York Area / San Francisco Area: $157,000 - $232,000 USD (salary range shown)
  • General US Remote: $125,600 - $185,500 USD (salary range shown)
  • Los Angeles, CA / Washington, DC (OTE Range): $141,300 - $208,800 USD

Positioning within those ranges depends on experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements, and geographic location. For compensation questions contact [email protected].

Perks & Benefits

  • Flexible work environment; ClickHouse is globally distributed and remote-friendly
  • Employer contributions toward healthcare
  • Stock options / equity
  • Flexible time off in the US and generous entitlement in other countries
  • $500 home office setup for remote employees
  • Global gatherings and company-wide offsites

Additional Notes

  • This role is part of a small, early team where you can help shape culture
  • The team leverages Temporal.io for rollout automation
  • On-call responsibilities and production troubleshooting are part of the role

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