Senior Cloud Engineer - Secure Deployments

at ClickHouse
📍 United States
USD 125,600-197,200 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 @ 7 Debugging @ 7 System Architecture @ 4 OpenShift @ 4 Cassandra @ 4 Compliance @ 4

Details

Join a small, specialized team building ClickHouse's secure, airgapped deployments for government and enterprise clients who cannot use the public cloud. You will design, develop, deploy and secure a ClickHouse Cloud database platform for environments with zero internet connectivity, ensuring compliance with security frameworks (NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP) while enabling elastic, high-performance, serverless ClickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
  • Build deployment automation for disconnected systems.
  • Collaborate with Dataplane, Core, Security, and infrastructure teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
  • Solve scaling challenges in classified/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 for disconnected operations.
  • Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-premise, 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

  • 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 tooling (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, service mesh).
  • Strong understanding of airgapped architectures and data isolation.
  • Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) in government environments.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
  • Proficiency in programming/scripting languages for automation and integration (Python or Go).
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong production debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work across engineering teams.
  • Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance; high ownership and accountability.

Compensation

  • Typical starting salary for this role in the United States: $125,600 - $197,200 USD per year.
  • Typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets (e.g., Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City Metro): $157,000 - $232,000 USD per year.

Perks & Benefits

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

Compliance & Culture

  • Work will involve compliance with security frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, and IRAP.
  • ClickHouse is an equal opportunity employer and provides privacy and pay transparency contacts in the listing.