Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Data Platform | Remote

ClickHouse, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking exceptional backend engineers to work across technologies with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud services, and platform reliability. You will collaborate cross-functionally to build and maintain infrastructure powering ClickPipes.

The role offers significant autonomy and opportunities to drive projects forward. The team emphasizes ownership, high-velocity work, and a founder’s mindset focused on impact and measurable results.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform (or similar IaC tool) and cloud-native architecture.
• Solid knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Ability to understand customer needs and inform product development.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and scale the high-performance data onboarding platform.
• Own and evolve infrastructure across multiple cloud providers (AWS, with expansion to GCP and Azure).
• Improve deployment pipelines, automation, and operational processes.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for scalability and resilience.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability and respond to incidents.
• Improve systems based on metrics and feedback.

Skills

Golang

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

On-call / production debugging

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

ClickHouse, Inc. is seeking exceptional backend engineers to work across technologies with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud services, and platform reliability. You will collaborate cross-functionally to build and maintain infrastructure powering ClickPipes.

The role offers significant autonomy and opportunities to drive projects forward. The team emphasizes ownership, high-velocity work, and a founder’s mindset focused on impact and measurable results.