Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Airgapped

Details

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.

With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we. We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design, develop, deploy and secure ClickHouse Cloud database platform for airgapped environments. This role involves architecting secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions tailored for classified and highly regulated systems. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP and other security frameworks while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less ClickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• 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 various infrastructure components which form a part of air-gapped 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

• 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, serviceMesh).
• Strong understanding of airgapped architectures, 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 (Python or Go) for automation and integration.
• U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver with solid production debugging skills.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and sees themselves as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in all countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish.

As part of our first 200 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture. We look for candidates who are motivated by doing great work as part of a team, open to learning from others, team players, respectful, and see feedback as an opportunity to grow.