Release Engineer - Data Plane Internal Tooling and Productivity

Clickhouse; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare - Employer contributions

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

Home office setup $500

Global gatherings

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Release Engineer to own the operational execution and software development for managing upgrades across tens of thousands of clusters. You will coordinate rolling upgrades, automate edge cases, and improve the internal tooling that makes large-scale database operations safe and repeatable.

You will work closely with core database and cloud infrastructure teams, handle on-call incidents, and contribute to building safer rollout processes using Go,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale.
• Strong production debugging skills; comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of the company 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 snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation can't yet handle
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable
• Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
• Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools

Skills

Go programming

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Production debugging

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

About the team

The Release Team owns the safe, continuous delivery of the company Cloud, a managed database platform running tens of thousands of the company clusters. We are responsible for upgrading and maintaining those clusters at scale, building the internal tooling that makes it possible, and being the last line of defense when something doesn't go according to plan.

About the role

This role is an equal split between operational execution and software development. You are responsible for the operational side: coordinating and running upgrades, dealing with edge cases that don't fit the happy path, and keeping tens of thousands of clusters healthy in production. At the same time, you are building and constantly improving the systems that make the next rollout safer and more automated than the last. If you find satisfaction in both writing the playbook and executing it, including the messy parts, this role is for you.

What you'll do

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of the company 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 snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation can't yet handle
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable
• Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
• Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools

About you

5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production, such as databases, message queues, or storage systems

• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores, at scale
• Strong production debugging skills; you are comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes
• Software development experience in Go (or strong experience in another language and genuine willingness to learn)
• Experience with the company preferred (as a user, operator or contributor)

Perks

Flexible work environment - the company is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 USD$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

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