Release Engineer: Data Plane, Internal Tools & Scale Ops

Clickhouse; Singapore; Remote; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking a seasoned Release Engineer to orchestrate upgrades and operate large-scale, distributed database clusters in production. The role blends hands-on execution with software development to improve automation and safety.

You will own the end-to-end release pipeline, respond to incidents, and collaborate with database and cloud infra teams to reduce toil and deliver reliable deployments across our global ClickHouse Cloud fleet.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance on live data stores at scale.
• Strong production debugging skills under pressure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Software development experience in Go or willingness to learn Go; ClickHouse familiarity preferred.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of ClickHouse clusters, ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact
• Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including edge cases that automation can't yet handle
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation for large-scale database operations
• Work closely with core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
• Support and educate other engineering teams using internal tools

Skills

Go programming

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Production debugging

Distributed systems

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking a seasoned Release Engineer to orchestrate upgrades and operate large-scale, distributed database clusters in production. The role blends hands-on execution with software development to improve automation and safety.

You will own the end-to-end release pipeline, respond to incidents, and collaborate with database and cloud infra teams to reduce toil and deliver reliable deployments across our global ClickHouse Cloud fleet.