Senior Cloud Engineer

at ClickHouse
📍 United States
USD 141,000-208,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Software Development @ 7 Ansible @ 4 Docker @ 4 Go @ 6 Kubernetes @ 4 MySQL @ 4 Terraform @ 4 Python @ 6 GCP @ 4 NoSQL @ 4 CI/CD @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 7 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 4 Helm @ 4 MongoDB @ 4 PostgreSQL @ 4 Performance Optimization @ 4 Debugging @ 7 System Architecture @ 4 OpenShift @ 4 Cassandra @ 4 Compliance @ 4

Details

Join a small, specialized team building ClickHouse's next frontier — secure, highly scalable database platforms for government and enterprise clients across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. This role focuses on architecting, developing, deploying, and securing ClickHouse Cloud database platforms for regulated and mission-critical environments, including disconnected or air-gapped deployments. Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship is required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
  • Build deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, including disconnected/air-gapped environments.
  • Collaborate with Dataplane, Core, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
  • Solve scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
  • Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
  • Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
  • Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
  • Optimize database performance and storage architecture for on-prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
  • Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
  • Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
  • Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Requirements

  • Permanent Resident and/or U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
  • 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
  • Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes tools: Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, and other service mesh technologies.
  • Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (including air-gapped architectures) is a strong plus.
  • Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), ideally in regulated or enterprise environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Go or Python) for automation and integration.
  • Strong production debugging, problem-solving skills, and a focus on efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering teams.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Compensation

  • Typical starting salary for this role in the United States: $141,000 - $208,000 USD.
  • Typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets (Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Area, New York City Metro): $157,000 - $230,000 USD.
  • The actual compensation may be higher or lower depending on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, and performance.

Perks & Benefits

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

Culture & Equal Opportunity

  • As part of the early team, you will help shape company culture.
  • ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination and harassment.

Technologies & Tools Mentioned

Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Operators, Istio, Service Mesh, Docker, OpenShift, AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Go, Python, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, NIST, FedRAMP, IRAP, Protected B, authentication, encryption, access control, air-gapped architectures, replication, backup, high availability, performance optimization.