Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Engineer

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive salary

Job summary

ClickHouse is expanding its Cloud Scaling team to build a cutting-edge cloud-native database platform on the public cloud. You will work on our in-house Kubernetes operator to enable seamless infrastructure management and shape a robust, distributed, highly available system.

You will collaborate with the core ClickHouse development team and other data plane squads to optimize data storage, ingestion, and transformation. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and cross-team communication.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems.
• Experience with Go, C++, or Java in production environments.
• Familiar with on-call in production and debugging.
• Experience with public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with data storage, ingestion, and transformation (Spark, Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a cloud-native database platform on public cloud.
• Develop and operate the in-house Kubernetes operator for infrastructure management.
• Improve the metrics pipeline and generate better statistics and recommendations.
• Collaborate with ClickHouse core development and data plane teams on infrastructure use cases.
• Architect and build scalable, highly available distributed infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

C++

Java

On-call / PagerDuty

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Kubernetes

Spark

Kafka

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Spark

Kafka

PagerDuty

Job description

The Cloud Scaling team is dedicated to implementing robust capabilities within the ClickHouse cloud environment. We seek exceptional software engineers to develop and maintain the 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 database platform on top of the public cloud.

• Work on our in-house Kubernetes operator to support seamless infrastructure management.

• Improve the metrics pipeline and build systems to generate better statistics and recommendations.

• Work closely with our ClickHouse core development team and other data plane teams, partnering with them to support infrastructure 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.

• Production experience with programming languages like Go, C++ or Java

• You are not a stranger to PagerDuty On-call, debugging things in production and are a strong problem-solver

• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (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 working with distributed systems

• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across engineering teams.

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