Software Engineer (Platform/Backend) - ClickHouse

Omnissa India Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnissa India Private Limited is hiring a software engineer to design, build, and maintain core services for a scalable data platform. You will troubleshoot performance, scalability, and data-layer issues while collaborating with engineering, product, and security teams.

The role requires hands-on experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and modern DevOps practices. Strong Linux skills and experience with distributed systems are essential for success in a hybrid Bangalore environment.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with ClickHouse table design for analytical workloads.
• Proven experience operating ClickHouse in production with distributed cluster design.
• Familiarity with ClickHouse projections, query result caching, RBAC and row-level security.
• Strong understanding of analytical data modeling and trade-offs.
• Experience building high-throughput ingestion pipelines with streaming systems.
• Experience with PostgreSQL as transactional state store alongside analytical DB.
• High proficiency in Unix/Linux platforms.
• Strong DevOps experience including CI/CD pipelines.
• 2–10 years of software engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, reusable, testable code for core services.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance, scalability, and data-layer issues.
• Take ownership of engineering initiatives and promote engineering excellence.
• Engage with stakeholders to define and deliver required solutions.
• Operate with a DevOps quality mindset across all stages of software development.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices.

Skills

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Linux

Go

C#

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus/Grafana

OpenSearch

Job description

Job Description: We are Omnissa. Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost. Guided by our core values—Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value—we're growing rapidly and committed to delivering meaningful impact. If you're passionate about shaping the future of work, we'd love to hear from you.

What is the opportunity? You have an analytical mind and a passion for the craft of software engineering, and you love solving problems and learning new things. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers’ business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, reusable, testable code that expands our platform's core services and capabilities, while also enhancing their scalability and resilience.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance, scalability, and code quality issues across application, ingestion, and data layers.
• Take ownership of engineering initiatives and promote a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Actively engage with various stakeholders within Engineering, Product Management, Security Engineering, and External Partners as needed to define and deliver the required solution.
• Operate with a Dev own quality mindset, participating in all stages of software development—requirements, design, coding, test automation, debugging, deployment, and production support.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with ClickHouse table design for analytical workloads: sorting key and sparse primary key design; partition strategy; data skipping indexes; materialized views for pre-aggregation; codec and compression selection per column type; and TTL policies for retention and data tiering.
• Proven experience operating ClickHouse in production: distributed cluster design with ClickHouse Keeper; sharding and Distributed table architecture; high-throughput ingestion patterns; query profiling; diagnosing merge backpressure, part explosion, and mutation storms; memory and thread tuning via server/user profiles; storage tiering with storage policies; and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana using ClickHouse-native metrics.
• Familiarity with ClickHouse projections, query result caching, RBAC and row-level security, and experience managing version upgrades across breaking changes.
• Strong understanding of analytical data modeling and trade-offs between transactional and analytical storage patterns.
• Experience building or supporting high-throughput ingestion pipelines involving streaming systems, asynchronous processing, batch loading, or change-data-capture style workflows.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, especially where it is used as a transactional state store alongside an analytical database.
• High proficiency and experience in Unix/Linux platforms.
• Strong working experience with C#, Go, and Docker.
• Good understanding of and experience in software architecture and high-performance, scalable distributed systems.
• Solid grasp of application architecture, networking, security, reliability, and scalability concepts.
• Strong DevOps experience, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration skills for working with distributed teams (Omnissa has teams globally).
• 2–10 years of experience in software engineering.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent technical training.

Additional Skills and Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, including event-driven or streaming architectures beyond basic pub/sub.
• Experience designing systems for non-blocking ingestion, asynchronous processing, internal queueing, file-based loaders, or decoupled write pipelines.
• Experience with large-scale JOIN-heavy analytical workloads and query patterns that require predictable low-latency responses.
• Comprehensive knowledge and work experience with any or all of the following technologies: Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and OpenSearch.
• Strong foundation in Linux file systems, memory, and multi-threading.
• Experience maintaining a large number of production deployments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud solutions and managed cloud services.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as OS (Linux and Windows), Network, Database, Server, Storage, etc.

Location and Work Model Location: Bangalore, India & Atlanta, USA. Work Model: Hybrid (3 days in-office, 2 days remote). Candidates must reside within a 1-hour commute radius of the office. Travel Expectations: Up to 20% travel, domestic or international, based on business needs.

Team and Leadership

You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager based in Canada (Eastern Time), a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience in engineering and team building. Since joining VMware EUC, he has expanded a key engineering group, retained top talent, and added another flagship product to the portfolio.

The team culture emphasizes

• Trust and collaboration — building strong, respectful relationships
• Customer commitment — delivering value and successful outcomes for users
• Transparency and communication — encouraging open dialogue and clarity
• Work-life balance — supporting flexibility and fulfillment at work

Omnissa is the digital work platform leader, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide as the former VMware End-User Computing business. We make digital work, work – for businesses and their people. No painful IT processes or productivity trade-offs. Instead, a seamlessly delivered digital employee experience that simplifies work.

Our comprehensive digital work platform enables IT teams to provide secure, personalized experiences for every employee, on any device. Omnissa unifies, automates, and efficiently scales the digital workspace. By empowering employees to do their best work, anywhere, we help workforces everywhere unlock exponential business value. All is made possible with the Omnissa™ Platform, the first AI-driven digital work platform for smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. It integrates multiple industry-leading solutions across Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Desktops and Apps, Digital Employee Experience, and Security and Compliance. By continuously adapting to users’ work styles, Omnissa optimizes user experience, security, IT operations and costs.

Recognized as 2025 Digital Workplace Company of the Year 2025 InfoWorld Awards Finalist – App Volumes RemoteTech Breakthrough Award Winner – Digital Workplace Company of the Year CRN Product of the Year Finalist – Omnissa Horizon (DaaS)

Omnissa is committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve across the globe. We believe this brings unique perspectives, experiences, and ideas, which are essential for driving innovation and achieving business success. We hire based on merit and with equal opportunity for all.