Senior Cloud Engineer - Product Metrics

📍 United States

USD 141,000-208,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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AWS @ 4 ArgoCD @ 4 Azure @ 4 ClickHouse @ 4 Communication @ 6 Debugging @ 7 Distributed Systems @ 6 GCP @ 4 Go Helm @ 4 Kafka @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Software Development @ 6 Terraform @ 4

Details

The Product Metrics team owns the collection, storage, and serving of metrics collected from customers' ClickHouse instances. The team designs, builds, operates, and maintains a petabyte-scale platform that stores trillions of records and processes millions of new events every second. The platform prioritizes delivery guarantees, precision, and accuracy while supporting internal billing and accounting systems and customer-facing dashboards.

The technology stack includes Golang, Kubernetes, and ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

Take an active part in determining the roadmap for the Product Metrics team.
Work closely within the team to deliver new features and iteratively improve them.
Design, build, operate, and maintain business-critical petabyte-scale systems.
Own the performance, reliability, availability, and cost-efficiency of Product Metrics systems.
Mentor and support other team members.
Participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team.
Participate in the on-call rotation and take ownership of the services you operate.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
2+ years of software application development experience using Golang.
Experience with at least one major cloud service provider, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Experience storing, shipping, and retrieving large volumes of data efficiently using technologies such as ClickHouse.
Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Temporal, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Strong initiative, responsibility, ownership, and accountability.
Customer-focused approach to product development.
Ability to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather feedback, and iterate.
Strong problem-solving mindset and production debugging skills.
Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively within and across engineering teams in a fully remote environment.

Bonus Points

Experience with ClickHouse.
Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers.
Experience with Kafka streaming technology.

Benefits

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