Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

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 incredible momentum was confirmed in its recent $350M Series C financing that included new, tier one investors. We’re on a mission to transform how companies use data.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate cloud resource management.
• Work closely with ClickHouse core database development and security teams and partner with them to produce the SaaS offering.
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of the cloud service.
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infrastructure, zero trust network, etc.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of the infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another object-oriented language.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Experience developing cloud-native edge or service mesh services, preferably with Envoy and Istio.
• Experience leading and shipping large-scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a global team.
• Strong problem-solving skills and solid production debugging experience.
• Passion for efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Compensation

• The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $141,000 - $208,000 USD.
• The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $157,000 - $230,000 USD (applies in certain locations such as Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Area, and New York City Metro Area).

These ranges reflect what ClickHouse reasonably and in good faith believes to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation may be higher or lower and depends on factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skills, and location. For compensation questions contact [email protected].

Perks & Benefits

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

About the Team

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team builds and manages foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end: compute, networking, security, and a multi-cloud, multi-region architecture that provides a reliable and scalable managed ClickHouse experience.

Equal Opportunity & Privacy

ClickHouse provides equal employment opportunities and prohibits discrimination. See ClickHouse's applicant privacy notice for details.