Remote Release Engineer: Scale Upgrades & Automation
ClickHouse, Inc.
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Job summary
ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to own the operational side of upgrades and contribute to software development for ClickHouse Cloud. You will coordinate upgrades, handle edge cases, and keep thousands of clusters healthy in production while building safer, more automated rollout systems.
The role blends hands-on execution with software development. In addition to running live upgrades, you will improve internal tooling, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with
Qualifications
- 5+ years operating stateful distributed systems in production.
- Experience running upgrades on live data stores at scale.
- Strong production debugging skills under pressure.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes.
- Go development experience or willingness to learn.
- Experience with ClickHouse is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute rolling upgrades across thousands of clusters with safety and minimal customer impact.
- Own the full release pipeline from pre-upgrade validation to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response.
- Investigate and resolve production issues as part of regular on-call rotations.
- Build and improve internal tooling and automation for large-scale database operations.
- Collaborate with core database and cloud infra teams to address operational pain points.
- Support and educate other teams using our internal tools.
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Job description
ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to own the operational side of upgrades and contribute to software development for ClickHouse Cloud. You will coordinate upgrades, handle edge cases, and keep thousands of clusters healthy in production while building safer, more automated rollout systems.
The role blends hands-on execution with software development. In addition to running live upgrades, you will improve internal tooling, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with
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