Senior Software Engineer – ClickHouse Infrastructure

USD 160,000-240,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ On-site

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences

Docker @ 4 Go @ 6 Jenkins @ 4 Kafka @ 4 Python @ 6 SQL @ 4 Spark @ 4 Java @ 6 CI/CD @ 4 Algorithms @ 4 Data Structures @ 4 Flink @ 4 Communication @ 7 Performance Optimization @ 4 Jira @ 4 Trino @ 4 OLAP @ 4 Maven @ 4 Profiling @ 3 ClickHouse @ 4

Details

The ClickHouse Infrastructure team is building a managed ClickHouse platform to power analytics and real-time insights across Bloomberg. The role focuses on building a ClickHouse-as-a-Service offering to enable teams to run fast, reliable, and cost-efficient analytical workloads without managing infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the design and implementation of ClickHouse platform services: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, backup/restore, and multi-tenant resource management.
  • Partner with product teams to model data and tune workloads (partitioning, primary keys, sorting, compression, materialized views, projections, TTL/tiered storage).
  • Develop platform features and standards that enable scalable, reliable data ingestion across teams.
  • Establish best practices for analytical SQL, cost/performance optimization, and SLOs.
  • Improve operational processes, automation, and documentation for a large fleet of clusters.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience in object-oriented languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C++).
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
  • Working knowledge of modern build and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Maven, Jira).
  • Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and multi-threaded programming.
  • SQL fundamentals and understanding of basic database operations.

Nice to have

  • Experience operating ClickHouse or similar OLAP systems at scale (Apache Druid, Pinot, Trino).
  • Familiarity with ClickHouse internals and ecosystem (MergeTree tables, replication, background merges, query profiling, storage policies).
  • Experience with containerized systems (Docker, container runtimes, orchestration platforms).
  • Familiarity with distributed storage systems or database internals (replication, sharding, consistency models, storage engines).
  • Exposure to streaming or data pipeline technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark).
  • Open-source involvement (code contributions, issue triage, or community participation).

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary Range: 160,000 - 240,000 USD Annual + Benefits + Bonus
  • Bloomberg offers comprehensive benefits that may include merit increases, incentive compensation, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, 401(k) with match, life insurance, and wellness programs. (The company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.)

Location

  • New York (role listed in New York).