Senior Backend Engineer - ClickStack

ClickHouse; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

USD 500 home office setup

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse in San Francisco is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform. You’ll own backend services, APIs, and data pipelines for developers.

Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, design scalable systems for ingesting and querying massive observability data.

You’ll work with TypeScript/Node.js, Go, Docker, and Kubernetes, shipping features that matter to users while embracing new technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend focus.
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (Express/Fastify).
• Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
• Experience with Go is a plus—occasional Go contributions.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product by owning and building key backend services and infrastructure.
• Engage with the community by collaborating with open-source contributors and customers.
• Tackle technical challenges by designing scalable backend systems for ingesting and querying large observability data.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

API design

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Open source

Developer tooling

Tools

Express

Fastify

Job description

Join us in revolutionizing Observability for Developers! We’re on a mission to redefine how engineers monitor, debug, and scale their production applications using ClickStack. An open-source platform that transforms telemetry data into actionable insights. Imagine a world where logs, metrics, traces, and session replays come together seamlessly to pinpoint root causes faster than ever before. If you've ever been jolted awake at 2 AM, frustrated with Grafana, Datadog, or Elastic for not delivering the answers you need, you’ll resonate with the problem we’re solving. And now, you can help us solve it.

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help us build a petabyte-scale, high-performance observability platform with a laser focus on crafting an amazing developer experience.

What You’ll Do

• Shape the product: Own and build key backend services and infrastructure that power our observability platform, ensuring reliable, high-throughput data pipelines and APIs that developers depend on every day.
• Engage with the community: Collaborate with open-source contributors and customers, solve their challenges, and incorporate their feedback into our backend architecture and API design.
• Tackle technical challenges: Design and implement scalable backend systems capable of ingesting, processing, and querying petabytes of observability data. You'll build the foundational services that empower engineers to crack production issues like never before.

Who You Are

• A backend engineer who excels at building reliable, performant services in TypeScript and Node.js.
• A creative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Driven to ship features that make a tangible impact for customers.
• Eager to learn and push boundaries, embracing new technologies and approaches.
• Love what you do and are passionate about software.
• Move fast and learn from mistakes.
• Love the freedom to create with minimal interruptions.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development, with a preference for building developer tools or infrastructure.
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js skills (experience with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks).
• Solid understanding of API design, distributed systems, and data modeling.
• Experience with Go is a plus — you'll occasionally contribute to Go-based services.
• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• A passion for open source and the developer community.
• Experience creating developer tooling and an eye for how to design for developers.

Bonus Points

• Experience with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or other analytical/OLTP databases.
• Strong opinions on observability tools and a vision for making them 10x better.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, logging pipelines, or metrics infrastructure.
• Experience with SDKs or client library design.
• Exposure to message queues, streaming systems (Kafka, NATS), or event-driven architectures.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse 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 - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, 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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