Senior Cloud SRE: Reliability, Scale & Incident Champion

ClickHouse; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare contributions

Equity / stock options

Flexible time off

Home office setup stipend

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is expanding its central Site Reliability Engineering team to build reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure. You will lead incident management, design SLOs/SLAs, and collaborate with Control Plane, Data Plane, Core, Security, Support, and Operations to ensure high availability and fault-tolerance across ClickHouse Cloud.

This role emphasizes automation, performance tuning, and blameless postmortems, with hands-on Go and Python, and strong cloud experience on AWS/Azure/GCP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Go and/or Python.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Excellent understanding of distributed databases and SQL (ClickHouse a plus).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Strong automation and configuration management experience (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, secure, highly available systems.
• Establish and manage SLOs and SLAs for ClickHouse Cloud.
• Ensure monitoring and alerting across infrastructure components for timely incident resolution.
• Lead incident response and post-mortem activities.
• Continuously improve reliability and performance of ClickHouse services.
• Plan and drive Chaos initiatives and manage on-call processes.

Skills

Go/Python

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Kubernetes / Docker Swarm

Automation/Configuration tools (Anible

Distributed databases / SQL

Production debugging

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

ClickHouse is expanding its central Site Reliability Engineering team to build reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure. You will lead incident management, design SLOs/SLAs, and collaborate with Control Plane, Data Plane, Core, Security, Support, and Operations to ensure high availability and fault-tolerance across ClickHouse Cloud.

This role emphasizes automation, performance tuning, and blameless postmortems, with hands-on Go and Python, and strong cloud experience on AWS/Azure/GCP.