Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Postgres

ClickHouse; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote environment

Healthcare contributions

Stock options

Generous time off

Home office stipend

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse is expanding its cloud data platform and seeks a Senior SRE / Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own reliability, automation, and operations as services scale globally.

You will lead Postgres integration reliability, design automation across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and contribute Go-based tooling to improve observability and developer experience. This hands-on role emphasizes ownership and high impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infra engineering on distributed systems.
• Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) with automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and operations for the Postgres integration; upgrades and scaling.
• Design automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
• Contribute Go-based tooling to improve automation, observability, and developer experience.
• Own observability with robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments.
• Drive incident management and postmortem practices to strengthen reliability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams.
• Mentor engineers and scale the team as adoption grows.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Go development

Automation

Observability

Incident management

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Job description

ClickHouse is expanding its cloud data platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure—adding new capabilities that connect and extend Postgres and ClickHouse for modern data workloads. We’re hiring a Senior SRE / Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own reliability, automation, and operations as these services scale globally. You’ll be at the center of how we run and evolve our next‑generation data platform—building the automation, observability, and operational rigor that ensure a fast, secure, and dependable customer experience. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where you’ll write code, shape architecture, and enable the broader engineering team to deliver with confidence and velocity.

What You’ll Do

• Lead reliability and operations for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration — upgrades, patching, maintenance, and scaling.
• Design and implement automation for provisioning, deployments, and service lifecycle management across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Contribute Go-based tooling and services that improve automation, observability, and developer experience.
• Own observability and monitoring, ensuring robust alerting, metrics, and tracing across environments.
• Drive incident management and postmortem practices that strengthen reliability and learning loops.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with platform, networking, and product teams to improve service operability.
• Mentor and enable engineers, helping the team scale effectively as customer adoption grows.

About You

• Experience: 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with a track record of running distributed, production‑grade systems.
• Database Operations: Solid understanding of Postgres operations, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep hands‑on experience across AWS, with exposure to GCP and Azure; comfortable navigating multi‑cloud topologies.
• Automation Skills: Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, and container‑based infrastructure.
• Programming: Strong Go development skills (or willingness to write and own production Go code).
• Observability: Familiar with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or equivalents.
• Reliability Focus: Deep understanding of SLOs, incident response, and continuous improvement in service reliability.
• Mindset: You operate with a founder’s mentality — hands‑on, resourceful, and willing to dive deep to get things done. You take pride in hard work, autonomy, and shipping impactful systems.

Why Join Us

• Build and operate the foundation for ClickHouse’s Postgres integration / extension, spanning multiple CSPs.
• Work on a small, elite team where ownership, reliability, and speed are core values.
• Shape the operational practices and automation that will define how ClickHouse runs databases in the cloud.
• Write production code, influence architecture, and mentor others — all while scaling a high‑impact platform from the ground up.
• Be part of a company redefining performance, simplicity, and developer experience in data infrastructure.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 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 USD$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.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start‑up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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