Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Airgapped

ClickHouse; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the tech industry is seeking experienced engineers to design and secure the ClickHouse Cloud database platform for airgapped environments. This role involves ensuring compliance with various security frameworks while optimizing performance and scalability. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in software development and cloud technologies, particularly in government environments.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant software development experience.
• Experience with ClickHouse or relational and NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of airgapped architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a highly available, scalable, and secure ClickHouse Cloud.
• Implement automation for infrastructure components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve database performance and security issues.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Communication

Problem Solving

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

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.

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

#LI-Remote

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

For roles based in theUnited 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.

If you have any questions or comments about compensation as a candidate, please get in touch with us at [e-mail].

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in 20 countries.
• 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 other countries.
• A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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