Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer

ClickHouse; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 133,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer, where you will develop cutting-edge cloud-native solutions. Collaborate with teams to enhance performance and scalability, while enjoying a flexible work environment and competitive salary.

Benefits

Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

Healthcare contributions

Stock options for all new team members

Flexible time off policies

$500 home office setup stipend

Global company-wide gatherings

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Production experience with Go and C++.

Responsibilities

• Build a Cloud Native platform on public cloud.
• Improve metrics pipeline for autoscaling statistics.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Data Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

C++

Python

Spark

Kafka

Job description

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About ClickHouse

Established in 2009, ClickHouse leads the industry with its open-source column-oriented database system, driven by the vision of becoming the fastest OLAP database globally. The company empowers users to generate real-time analytical reports through SQL queries, emphasizing speed in managing escalating data volumes. Enterprises globally, including Lyft, Sony, IBM, GitLab, Twilio, HubSpot, and many more, rely on ClickHouse Cloud. It is available through open-source or on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba.

The Cloud AutoScaling team is dedicated to implementing robust vertical and horizontal auto-scaling capabilities within the ClickHouse cloud environment. We seek exceptional software engineers to develop and maintain the auto-scaling infrastructure to transform ClickHouse into a fully functional serverless database solution. Collaborating closely with the core database team, we are actively working on evolving ClickHouse into a cloud-native database system. Additionally, we engage with other cloud teams to drive continuous improvements in cloud infrastructure for enhanced performance and scalability.

What will you do?

• Build a cutting-edge Cloud Native platform on top of the public cloud.
• Improve the metrics pipeline and build algorithms to generate better autoscaling statistics and recommendations.
• Work on the autoscale and Kubernetes operator to support seamless Vertical and Horizontal Auto-scaling.
• Work closely with our ClickHouse core development team and other data plane teams, partnering with them to support auto-scaling use cases as well as other internal infrastructure improvements.
• Architecting and building a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.

About you:

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience building operators with Kubernetes, controller runtime.
• Production experience with programming languages like Go, C++.
• You are familiar with PagerDuty on-call, debugging in production, and are a strong problem-solver.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offerings (e.g., EC2).
• Experience with Data Storage, Ingestion, and Transformation (Spark, Kafka, or similar tools).
• You are passionate about solving data problems at scale.
• Experience with Python (uv, rye, fastAPI). Data Science (Pandas, NumPy, etc.) is a plus.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across engineering teams.

Salary ranges vary based on location, including New York Area / San Francisco Area: $157,000—$232,000 USD, US Remote: $133,450—$197,200 USD, Los Angeles / Washington, DC: $141,300—$208,800 USD, Seattle: $141,300—$208,800 USD.

Perks include:

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment across 20 countries.
• Healthcare contributions.
• Stock options for all new team members.
• Flexible time off policies.
• $500 home office setup stipend.
• Global company-wide gatherings.

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