Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Equity

ClickHouse; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Stock options

Generous time off

Home office stipend

Global offsites

Job summary

ClickHouse seeks a strong backend engineer to own and optimize large-scale ingestion pipelines feeding data into ClickHouse. You will design efficient schemas, optimize queries, and implement infrastructure-heavy features in a distributed environment.

You will work with real data, test performance, and collaborate across teams to push scale and reliability for analytics workloads. Remote-friendly company with global teams and strong OSS involvement.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineer with focus on database internals, performance, and distributed systems.
• Comfortable reading and writing TypeScript and SQL for backend services.
• Experience with analytical databases, data pipelines, or high-throughput event processing a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize ingestion pipeline from API to ClickHouse, focusing on throughput, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Make ClickHouse fast by designing schemas, optimizing merges, and tuning batch inserts for dashboards and UI.

Skills

Backend engineering

Database internals

Query optimization

Distributed systems

TypeScript

SQL

Education

CS or quantitative degree

Tools

ClickHouse

OLAP databases

Job description

ClickHouse seeks a strong backend engineer to own and optimize large-scale ingestion pipelines feeding data into ClickHouse. You will design efficient schemas, optimize queries, and implement infrastructure-heavy features in a distributed environment.

You will work with real data, test performance, and collaborate across teams to push scale and reliability for analytics workloads. Remote-friendly company with global teams and strong OSS involvement.