Senior Cloud Performance Engineer

ClickHouse; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global database technology company in Singapore is seeking experienced performance engineers to optimize and enhance the ClickHouse Cloud platform. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience with distributed systems and a strong background in programming languages such as Go, C/C++, or Java. This position offers flexible work arrangements and significant opportunities for impact within the team.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Employer contributions towards healthcare

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

$500 Home office setup

Opportunities for global gatherings

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience.
• Experience with scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark system performance and optimize database performance.
• Troubleshoot and debug application errors.
• Work with engineering teams to improve ClickHouse Cloud performance.

Skills

Go

C/C++

Java

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Multithreading

Cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes)

Problem solving

Job description

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

About the Team

The Cloud Performance Engineering team is responsible for building cloud native ClickHouse Cloud Platform that will transform the OLAP space. Our team is looking for exceptional performance engineers with a proven track record of understanding the performance limits of different distributed databases and creating tools for measuring the performance and scalability of complex systems. The ideal candidate for this position is a distributed systems performance engineer with a strong background in database benchmarking, test automation, system engineering, performance analysis, and capacity management. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server less clickHouse Cloud.

What will you do?

• Benchmark system performance, database performance analysis, capacity sizing and optimization.
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug application and server errors and logs and triage accordingly
• Recommend configuration tuning/optimizations for performance bottlenecks
• Work closely with ClickHouse core development team, cloud team, security team and partner with them to improve the performance of ClickHouse Cloud.
• Plan, enable, and drive Chaos initiatives across Engineering teams, based upon internal priorities
• Develop, deploy and manage tools to systematically run chaos experiments and measure impact
• Enjoy working on, and gaining a deep understanding of, large scale distributed systems
• Study the problems in the software resilience, operational, and delivery spaces
• Extend our entire backend to enable Chaos Engineering techniques in the system
• Observe running systems, and determine/prioritize innovative ways to disrupt them

About you:

• You have 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or similar.
• Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes.
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance.
• You Thrive in a fast paced environment, and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Compensation

For roles based in theUnited States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here . Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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