Staff Database Engineer, ClickHouse

Enterpret; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work setup

Premium healthcare

Equity

Job summary

Enterpret is building a customer feedback intelligence platform for product teams. We run ClickHouse in production on AWS EC2, scale data stores, and develop data pipelines with Go and Python.

You will collaborate with founders and platform engineers to architect scalable systems, mentor engineers, and own critical infra components. You must have 7+ years in software engineering with 3+ years hands-on ClickHouse production experience, and be comfortable across databases and distributed data

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software engineering with 3+ years hands-on ClickHouse in production.
• 3+ years at one organization building systems from scratch and leading projects.
• Deep expertise in ClickHouse at scale: architecture, cluster setup, replication, sharding, Keeper, performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Run ClickHouse in production on AWS EC2 end to end, including performance, capacity, replication, Keeper, upgrades, backups and cost.
• Redesign data storage to scale with data volume and customers; reduce table proliferation.
• Tune schemas, partitions and queries; enable safe deletes, updates and backfills at scale.
• Write and review Go and Python code for data-access layers and ETL pipelines; manage Postgres and Redis.
• Collaborate with founding team and platform engineers to plan 10x scale and review schema/query changes.
• Build monitoring and runbooks; lead database incidents and ensure follow-up fixes.

Skills

ClickHouse in prod

Go

Python

SQL & DB design

AWS EC2

Data pipelines

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Job description

At Enterpret, we are building a customer feedback intelligence platform for product development teams. We are solving complex problems in natural language processing, serverless computing, analytics on frontend, pushing the envelope of what's possible by applying first principle thinking.

We are backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, who share our conviction in this mission, and we serve some of the most respected product development teams in the world, including Canva, Notion, Netflix, Wispr Flow.

We love working with folks who are resourceful, thrive in ambiguity, and display a strong sense of ownership.

Our engineering culture is built around leveraging and contributing to open-source tools. We aim to build upon and improve state-of-the-art systems in our field of work.

Read more about our team, core values, and operating principles - here .

What You'll Do

• Run ClickHouse in production on AWS EC2 end to end, covering performance, capacity, replication, Keeper, upgrades, backups and cost.
• Redesign how we store customer data so the database grows with data volume, not with the number of customers. Today each customer has its own set of tables, some with 1,000+ custom columns, which puts us at tens of thousands of tables and climbing toward 10x.
• Make queries fast and writes safe. Tune schemas, partitions and queries, and make deletes, updates and backfills safe to run at scale.
• Write and review Go and Python code, mainly the data-access layers and the ETL pipelines that feed ClickHouse. Look after Postgres and Redis alongside it.
• Partner with the founding team and platform engineers on the plan to reach 10x scale. Review schema and query changes before they ship and help teams scale their applications.
• Build monitoring and runbooks, lead database incidents, and see the follow-up fixes through so the same problem doesn't come back.

What It Takes

• 7+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years hands-on with ClickHouse in production. Depth matters more than the number of years.
• 3+ years at one organization where you've built systems from scratch and led projects.
• Deep expertise in ClickHouse at scale: architecture, cluster setup, replication, sharding, Keeper, performance tuning and query optimisation.
• Strong SQL and database design (schemas, partitioning, indexing, storage optimisation), plus hands-on experience with Postgres and Redis.
• Proficient in Go and Python, with a solid understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines and comfort working on AWS (especially EC2) and Linux.
• AI-native: you use AI tools daily for coding and debugging, and you check their output.
• A track record of collaborating across teams and mentoring engineers, explaining trade-offs clearly, and making sound calls when the path to scale isn't fully mapped out.

Why Enterpret?

• High Impact: Be the person who gets our core analytics database to 10x scale safely, at an early-stage startup where that work shapes the whole product.
• Ownership: End-to-end responsibility for features and systems.
• Complex Challenges: Work on a multi-tenant ClickHouse platform with thousands of wide tables, real-time analytics, and the data model changes needed to make it scale.
• Growth: Learn and grow with a high-caliber team and expand into leadership or deep technical expertise in data infrastructure.
• Culture: Open, collaborative, and values-driven environment with autonomy.
• Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, hybrid work setup, premium healthcare, and more.

What We Value

At Enterpret, we operate with a deep sense of ownership — we play for the team and do what it takes to win together. We care personally for our teammates while pushing each other with honest, actionable feedback. Above all, we approach everything with humility and a drive to keep learning and getting better.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We ensure that none of our employees or prospective employees receives less favourable treatment as a result of age, sex, disability, marital status, colour, race, religion or ethnic origin. Equally we aim to ensure that no such employee is disadvantaged by terms and conditions of employment which cannot be justified.