Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Infra & Cloud (Remote)

ClickHouse; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 147,000 - 238,000; 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 is seeking exceptional backend engineers to work across a range of technologies with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud services, and platform reliability. The role emphasizes autonomy, initiative, and cross-functional collaboration to build and maintain robust infrastructure powering ClickPipes/ClickHouse platforms.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, strong Golang and IaC tooling skills, and a customer-focused mindset to inform product

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience building backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and scale our high-performance data onboarding platform to handle increasing volumes of data in real-time.
• Own and evolve our infrastructure across multiple cloud providers (AWS, with expansion to GCP and Azure).
• Drive improvements to our deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and operational processes.
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions that impact our platform's scalability and resilience.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.
• Continuously improve our systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.

Skills

Backend engineering

Golang

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Customer focus

Collaboration

Autonomy

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking exceptional backend engineers to work across a range of technologies with deep expertise in Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud services, and platform reliability. The role emphasizes autonomy, initiative, and cross-functional collaboration to build and maintain robust infrastructure powering ClickPipes/ClickHouse platforms.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, strong Golang and IaC tooling skills, and a customer-focused mindset to inform product