Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Airgapped

at ClickHouse
📍 United States
USD 125,600-232,000 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 SQL @ 4 GCP @ 4 NoSQL @ 4 CI/CD @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 7 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 4 Helm @ 4 MongoDB @ 4 PostgreSQL @ 4 Debugging @ 7 System Architecture @ 4 OLAP @ 4 OpenShift @ 4 Cassandra @ 4 Compliance @ 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.

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, service Mesh).
  • 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, partnering with the business to move forward.
  • High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Benefits

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

Compensation

Salary ranges depending on US location:

  • New York Area / San Francisco Area: $157,000 - $232,000 USD
  • General US Remote: $125,600 - $185,500 USD
  • Los Angeles, CA / Washington, DC: $141,300 - $208,800 USD