Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Airgapped

Up Closets of Charleston; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking exceptional engineers to design and secure a high-performance cloud database platform. This role involves architecting scalable solutions for airgapped environments, ensuring compliance with various security frameworks while enabling high-performance capabilities. You will collaborate with diverse teams, optimizing database performance and automating deployments. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about technology, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team and contribute to shaping the future of cloud database solutions!

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Healthcare contributions

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

$500 Home office setup

Employee-driven international mobility

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software development with a focus on scalable systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and containerized deployments.
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable ClickHouse Cloud for airgapped systems.
• Automate deployments and manage infrastructure components.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure software parity and compliance.

Skills

Software Development

Distributed Systems

Database Management

Kubernetes

Automation

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ClickHouse

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

United States (remote)

About ClickHouse

We are the company behind the popular open-source, high performance columnar OLAP database management system for real-time analytics. ClickHouse works 100-1000x faster than traditional approaches. By offering a true column-based DBMS, it allows for systems to generate reports from petabytes of raw data with sub-second latencies. With an amazing community already adopting our open-source technology, we are now embracing our journey in delivering Cloud first solutions to delight our customers.

With top adopters such as Lyft, Cisco, and eBay - not only do our products work at lightning speed, so do we.

We are an open and collaborative company. Our colleagues are curious, engaged and excited about what they do. If you want to work in an environment where you can learn, grow, be an agent of change and have your voice heard - then please read on!

Our team is looking for exceptional engineers to design, develop, deploy and secure ClickHouse Cloud database platform for airgapped environments. This role involves architecting secure, high-performance, and scalable solutions tailored for classified and highly regulated systems. You will work closely with Security, Dataplane, ClickHouse Core and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with NIST, FedRAMP, Protected B, IRAP and other security frameworks while enabling our elastic, limitless scale, high-performance, server-less ClickHouse Cloud capabilities in isolated environments.

What will you do?

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud tailored for airgapped systems.
• Work closely with existing Dataplane and Core teams to ensure software parity with existing cloud infrastructure.
• 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 various infrastructure components which form a part of air-gapped for disconnected operations.
• Optimize ClickHouse Cloud database performance and storage architecture for on-premise, 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.

About you:

• You have 6+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra) databases.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes tools (Helm, Kustomize, operators, Istio, serviceMesh).
• Strong understanding of airgapped architectures, data isolation.
• Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) in government environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or on-prem equivalents).
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages (Python or Go) for automation and integration.
• U.S. Citizenship required (per U.S. federal contract requirements).
• 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.

New York Area / San Francisco Area - Salary Range: $157,000 - $232,000 USD

General US Remote Salary Range: $125,600 - $185,500 USD

Los Angeles, CA / Washington, DC - Salary Range: $141,300 - $208,800 USD

Compensation

This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant. For roles based in the United States, you can find above our typical starting salary ranges for this role, depending on your specific location.

The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a distributed company offering remote-first work to all employees.
• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in all countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Employee-driven international mobility - we enable you to relocate internationally if you wish (within certain countries and timelines and subject to role requirements, time zones and work permit considerations).

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of our first 500 employees, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

We look for candidates who are:

• Motivated by doing great work as part of a team :)
• Open to learning from others and sharing with others.
• Team Players: helpful, resourceful, responsive.
• Respectful and see feedback as an opportunity to grow.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? We are a one year old company therefore we are excited to be building it together at the moment. Our first 500 employees are the culture shapers of our future. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s important to us, and to find out if you’d like to come and contribute to building our culture with us!

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