Senior Software Engineer, Kubernetes Infra (Remote + Equity)

Whereby; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; 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 Private is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and ship backend services for Kubernetes-based deployments. You will adapt Cloud components for customer-controlled environments and build operator-driven tooling to automate installations and upgrades.

You will collaborate with support engineers on customer deployments, contribute to health diagnostics, and create runbooks and docs for customers and teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software, including infrastructure or platform systems.
• Experience with Kubernetes (managed or self-hosted), Helm and operators/controllers.
• Go language preferred; strong experience in another language welcome if ready to work in Go.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalent on-prem/cloud platforms; solid Linux networking fundamentals.
• Ability to debug unfamiliar distributed systems across boundaries you do not control.
• Clear communication in design docs, PRs, and with support/customer engineers.
• Ability to make pragmatic trade-offs, deliver incrementally, and own from design to release.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and platform capabilities for ClickHouse Private, combining reusable Cloud components with purpose-built implementations.
• Adapt and integrate existing ClickHouse Cloud components for Kubernetes-based deployments in customer-controlled cloud and self-hosted environments.
• Build and maintain what customers actually install: Helm charts, Kubernetes operators, and deployment tooling.
• Make installation and upgrades boring: preflight validation, deterministic tooling, health diagnostics, and safe recovery paths.
• Build release automation: assemble tested sets of components, define supported upgrade paths, and make failures diagnosable.
• Adapt deployments for regulated and network-restricted environments.
• Work alongside support engineers on customer deployments and troubleshoot problems in customer-controlled environments.
• Turn recurring customer requirements into reusable product capabilities rather than one-off solutions.
• Write the documentation and runbooks customers and our support teams rely on.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Helm

Operators/Controllers

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Linux networking fundamentals

Distributed systems debugging

Documentation & design communication

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ClickHouse Private is seeking a senior platform engineer to design and ship backend services for Kubernetes-based deployments. You will adapt Cloud components for customer-controlled environments and build operator-driven tooling to automate installations and upgrades.

You will collaborate with support engineers on customer deployments, contribute to health diagnostics, and create runbooks and docs for customers and teams worldwide.