Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Remote, Regulated Cloud

ClickHouse, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; 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 building a secure, scalable ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated environments across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem deployments.

You will collaborate with Security, Dataplane, Core, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with frameworks while enabling elastic, serverless cloud capabilities. This role focuses on architecture, deployment automation, and performance optimization in high‑stakes settings, with a remote-friendly culture and opportunity to shape the product's

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio).
• Experience with secure, regulated, or restricted network environments (airgapped) is a strong plus.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on‑prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in Go or Python for automation and integration.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability, and data governance.
• You thrive in a fast‑paced environment and see yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving the business forward.
• You have a high level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated and mission-critical environments.
• Build innovative deployment automation across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem systems, including disconnected environments when needed.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Solve unique scaling, reliability, and performance challenges in regulated environments.
• Design and deploy ClickHouse Cloud on Kubernetes and containerized environments ensuring high availability, replication, and backup.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, operators, and Kubernetes manifests for database management.
• Implement repeatable automation to build, scale, and troubleshoot infrastructure components across diverse deployment models.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on‑prem, hybrid, and government cloud deployments.
• Integrate secure authentication, encryption, and access control mechanisms.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for system architecture, security, and compliance audits.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance, security, and operational issues.
• Automate deployments and lifecycle management using Terraform, Ansible, or CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Go or Python programming

Distributed systems design

Cloud platforms familiarity

Security/compliance mindset

Team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

Operators

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

OpenShift

Job description

ClickHouse, Inc. is building a secure, scalable ClickHouse Cloud platform for regulated environments across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem deployments.

You will collaborate with Security, Dataplane, Core, and Infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with frameworks while enabling elastic, serverless cloud capabilities. This role focuses on architecture, deployment automation, and performance optimization in high‑stakes settings, with a remote-friendly culture and opportunity to shape the product's