Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer

at ClickHouse
📍 United States
📍 Washington, United States
📍 New York City, United States
📍 Seattle, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 Los Angeles, United States
USD 133,400-232,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Software Development @ 6 Go @ 4 Kafka @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Python @ 4 SQL @ 4 Spark @ 4 Statistics @ 4 GCP @ 4 Algorithms @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 6 Data Science @ 4 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 4 FastAPI @ 4 Debugging @ 4 Reporting @ 4 LLM @ 4 OLAP @ 4 Pandas @ 4

Details

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.

The Cloud AutoScaling team is dedicated to implementing robust vertical and horizontal auto-scaling capabilities within the ClickHouse cloud environment. The team builds and maintains auto-scaling infrastructure to evolve ClickHouse into a fully functional server-less, cloud-native database solution, collaborating closely with core database and other cloud/data plane teams.

Responsibilities

  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of public cloud providers.
  • Improve the metrics pipeline and build algorithms to generate better autoscaling statistics and recommendations.
  • Work on the autoscale and Kubernetes operator to support seamless vertical and horizontal auto-scaling.
  • Collaborate closely with the ClickHouse core development team and other data plane teams to support auto-scaling use cases and internal infrastructure improvements.
  • Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Participate in on-call rotation (PagerDuty) and debug production issues when needed.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  • Experience building operators with Kubernetes and controller-runtime.
  • Production experience with programming languages like Go and C++.
  • Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure-as-a-service offerings (e.g., EC2).
  • Experience with data storage, ingestion, and transformation tools (Spark, Kafka or similar).
  • Experience improving metrics pipelines and building autoscaling algorithms.
  • Comfortable debugging production issues and participating in on-call rotations (PagerDuty).
  • Experience with Python (listed: uv, rye, fastAPI) and data science libraries (Pandas, NumPy) is good to have.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work well across engineering teams.

Compensation

For roles based in the United States, ClickHouse provides typical starting salary ranges depending on specific location. Positioning of offers depends on candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location. For questions about compensation, contact [email protected].

Benefits / Perks

  • Flexible work environment — ClickHouse is globally distributed and remote-friendly.
  • Employer contributions towards healthcare.
  • Equity in the company — new team members receive stock options.
  • Flexible time off in the US; generous entitlement in other countries.
  • $500 home office setup for remote employees.
  • Global gatherings and company-wide offsites.

About ClickHouse

ClickHouse is available open-source and via cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba). The company emphasizes performance for OLAP-style analytics and real-time SQL reporting.

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