Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

Details

Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, ClickHouse is one of the most innovative and fast-growing private cloud companies. With over 2,000 customers and ARR that has more than quadrupled over the past year, ClickHouse leads the market in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. ClickHouse’s momentum was confirmed in its recent $350M Series C financing. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data.

ClickHouse is expanding its cloud data platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure—adding new capabilities that connect and extend Postgres and ClickHouse for modern data workloads. We’re hiring a Senior SRE / Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own reliability, automation, and operations as these services scale globally. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll write code, shape architecture, and enable the broader engineering team to deliver with confidence and velocity.

Location: United States (remote)

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration — upgrades, patching, maintenance, and scaling.
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Contribute Go-based tooling and services that improve automation, observability, and developer experience.
• Own observability and monitoring, ensuring robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments.
• Drive incident management and postmortem practices that strengthen reliability and learning loops.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams to improve service operability.
• Mentor and enable engineers, helping the team scale effectively as customer adoption grows.

Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production-grade systems.
• Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Deep hands-on experience across AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure; comfortable navigating multi-cloud topologies.
• Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container-based infrastructure.
• Strong Go development skills (or willingness to write and own production Go code).
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents.
• Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement in service reliability.
• Founder’s mentality: hands-on, resourceful, autonomous, and able to ship impactful systems.

Compensation

The typical starting salary for this role in the United States is $140,000 - $208,000 USD. The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets (e.g., Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City Metro Area) is $155,000 - $230,000 USD. Actual compensation may vary based on experience, location, and other factors.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible work environment; globally distributed and remote-friendly.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on protected characteristics. See ClickHouse’s applicant privacy notice for details.