Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure) - HyperDX

Details

Join ClickHouse’s HyperDX team to help revolutionize observability for developers. HyperDX is an open-source observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and session replays to help engineers pinpoint root causes faster. You will work on backend systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling to make observability scalable, reliable, and easy to operate.

Responsibilities

• Build the core platform: design and implement backend systems and APIs that power HyperDX to ingest, query, and analyze observability data at massive scale.
• Scale deployments and infrastructure: architect, deploy, and maintain cloud-native systems that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance using Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ensure maintainability and operational excellence: define best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and alerting; drive automation across testing, scaling, and incident response.
• Engineer for scale: design and operate ingestion and data processing pipelines that remain performant, resilient, and observable at petabyte-level workloads.
• Engage with the community: collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, incorporate feedback into the roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (bonus for additional languages).
• Deep understanding of APIs, event-driven systems, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience working with analytical databases (ClickHouse experience is a plus).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, plus Helm for managing production deployments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and production-grade alerting practices.
• Passion for building reliable, maintainable, cloud-native systems focused on reliability and scalability.

Bonus Points

• Expertise in distributed systems, ingestion pipelines, and columnar databases.
• Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them significantly better.
• Experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS platforms in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of service meshes, networking, and advanced Kubernetes features.
• Background in developer tooling or open-source contributions.
• Experience building SDKs or integrations in multiple languages.
• Familiarity with ReactJS and frontend development.

Compensation

• Typical starting salary for this role in the US: $133,450 - $197,200 USD.
• Typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets: $157,000 - $232,000 USD.

These ranges reflect what the company reasonably believes to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting; actual compensation may vary based on factors such as education, experience, location, and performance.

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 (US) and generous entitlements in other countries.
• $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Global company-wide gatherings/offsites.

Culture & Equal Opportunity

• As one of the first 500 employees, you will shape company culture.
• ClickHouse is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment.
• See the company privacy statement and pay transparency contact for questions about compensation.