Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

Summary

Join ClickHouse's Cloud Infrastructure Engineering team and build and manage the foundational blocks of ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end. You will architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure, build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform, and work closely with other teams. Responsibilities include working on routing and traffic components, improving availability, designing and building security components, and improving performance and cost efficiency. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of relevant software development experience, experience with cloud technologies and IaC tools, and experience developing cloud infrastructure services. Excellent communication skills and problem-solving abilities are essential. ClickHouse offers a flexible work environment, healthcare contributions, equity in the company, time off, a home office setup allowance, and global gatherings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Software development experience in Go, C/C++, Java, or another OOP language
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
• Experience developing cloud native edge or service mesh services, preferably with envoy and Istio
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
• Understanding of network topologies, protocols, and security principles, such as VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, including encryption, access controls, and compliance standards like SOC2 and GDPR
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a global team
• 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

• Architect and build a robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure
• Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on top of the public cloud, and automate our cloud resource management
• Work closely with our ClickHouse core database development team, and security team and partner with them to produce the SAS offering
• Work on routing and traffic components to improve the reliability and scalability of our cloud service
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices
• Design and build security components & tooling: firewall, PKI and certificate infra, zero trust network, etc
• Improve performance and cost efficiency of our infrastructure

Benefits

• 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