Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

USD 147,000-238,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

Tech Stack

Azure ClickHouse Distributed Systems @ 6 GCP Kafka Kinesis OpenAPI Software Development @ 6 Terraform

Details

About the Team

The ClickPipes team builds the services that power data ingestion into ClickHouse Cloud. As a primary entry point for customers' data, ClickPipes is critical to product adoption and company growth. The team works at petabyte scale, solving challenges in distributed systems, fault tolerance, and high-throughput ingestion. This role will help make these pipelines performant, reliable, and easy to operate, with ownership of technical decisions and the platform as a whole.

Recent team initiatives include a GCP Pub/Sub connector, Terraform and OpenAPI support, and unordered mode for GCS ClickPipes.

The team is looking for backend engineers with experience in data-intensive systems who enjoy working across technologies. You will collaborate with engineering and product partners and drive projects from design through production.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage, including Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage.
  • Continuously improve systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.
  • Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions affecting platform scalability and resilience.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem.
  • Experience designing systems for scalability and fault tolerance, including an understanding of concurrency, consistency, and failure recovery.
  • Understanding of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major cloud provider.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems.
  • Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate across engineering and product teams.
  • Experience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage is a plus.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment at a globally distributed, remote-friendly company operating in over 25 countries.
  • Employer contributions toward healthcare.
  • Stock options for every new team member.
  • Flexible time off in the United States and generous entitlement in other countries.
  • USD 500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
  • Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide global offsites.

Equal Opportunity and Privacy

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment based on protected characteristics under applicable law.

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