Research Scientist, Open-Source Database Systems (Remote)

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment - remote

Healthcare - employer contributions

Equity in the company - stock options

Time off - flexible time off in the US

USD$500 home office setup for remote

Global Gatherings – company-wide offsI

Remote-friendly

Job summary

ClickHouse Labs is seeking a Research Scientist to tackle high-impact problems at the intersection of database systems, distributed systems, AI, and systems software engineering.

You will lead open-source projects (ClickHouse, PostgreSQL), develop new algorithms, and collaborate with engineers to deploy robust implementations across production systems.

We encourage publishing and conference participation, with a remote-friendly, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field with research in databases or systems.
• Strong publication record in venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, or NeurIPS.
• Proficiency in systems programming languages (C, C++, Rust, Zig).
• Experience with large DBMS codebases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research aimed at advancing the performance, scalability, reliability, and functionality of open-source database management systems, including ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.
• Design and evaluate new algorithms, data structures, and system architectures for areas such as query optimization, indexing, storage management, query execution, and distributed data management.
• Develop high-quality research prototypes and production-grade implementations, and work with engineering teams to integrate successful techniques into open-source and production systems.
• Collaborate closely with database engine, infrastructure, and data-plane engineers to identify high-impact research problems and translate research results into practical system improvements.
• Analyze large-scale database workloads, performance traces, benchmarks, and production telemetry to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities.
• Design rigorous experiments and benchmarks to evaluate new techniques across realistic workloads, hardware configurations, and deployment environments.
• Communicate research results through technical reports, open-source contributions, internal presentations, and publications at leading database and systems venues (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR).
• Contribute to the broader technical direction of ClickHouse Labs by identifying emerging research opportunities and helping shape longer-term research projects.

Skills

Strong programming

Systems development

Technical communication

Education

Masters/PhD in CS or Data Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

ClickHouse

Job description

ClickHouse Labs is seeking a Research Scientist to tackle high-impact problems at the intersection of database systems, distributed systems, AI, and systems software engineering.

You will lead open-source projects (ClickHouse, PostgreSQL), develop new algorithms, and collaborate with engineers to deploy robust implementations across production systems.

We encourage publishing and conference participation, with a remote-friendly, globally distributed team.