Cloud Observability Engineer — Remote, Equity, Flexible PTO

ClickHouse, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Healthcare benefits

Stock options

Flexible time off

Home office setup stipend

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join the Observability Platform to design, build, and operate large-scale telemetry systems. This role focuses on distributed systems at click-scale, reliability, and cost-efficient infrastructure across cloud environments.

You will own telemetry pipelines, engage in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to minimize incidents and improve operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling such as Terraform, Helm, and Argo CD.
• Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with ClickHouse.
• Experience with high-throughput ingestion, streaming, queueing, or storage systems.
• Experience building multi-tenant cloud services.
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for both performance and cost.
• Experience with TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
• Own the reliability, performance, capacity, and cost-efficiency of telemetry pipelines and storage systems.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, help resolve production incidents, and drive root-cause fixes through to completion.
• Build software and automation that eliminate repetitive operational work and make the platform easier to operate.
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and help shape the roadmap for the next stage of scale.
• Work closely with product, infrastructure, and service teams across ClickHouse.
• Contribute to architecture and design reviews and help raise engineering quality across the team.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Production operations

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Argo CD

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

TypeScript

Job description

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Software Engineer to join the Observability Platform to design, build, and operate large-scale telemetry systems. This role focuses on distributed systems at click-scale, reliability, and cost-efficient infrastructure across cloud environments.

You will own telemetry pipelines, engage in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to minimize incidents and improve operational efficiency.