Core Software Engineer

Summary

Join ClickHouse, a company behind a high-performance open-source database, as a C++ engineer. Contribute to the core ClickHouse database, optimizing performance and working on various aspects like query optimization and distributed systems. Ensure database performance through testing and serve as a resource for the support team. Collaborate with other teams and the open-source community to assess new features and resolve issues. This remote-first role requires strong C++ and database experience, excellent communication, and a passion for performance and scalability. Benefits include competitive compensation, stock options, flexible work environment, healthcare contributions, generous time off, and a home office setup.

Requirements

• Solid professional software development experience in C++
• Experience with Unix Systems
• Strong knowledge in database internals and design
• Experience in performance engineering, ideally in a database but other areas like high-frequency trading, simulation, real time data processing etc. are also okay
• Communicate well with others and have the ability to work well within and across engineering teams
• Ready to work closely with our open-source community. Participate in code reviews with patience and attention to detail fostering a culture of collaboration and mutual respect
• Strong problem-solver and have solid production debugging skills
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, scalability and data governance
• Thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, seeing yourself as a partner with the business with the shared goal of moving forward and building together
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability

Responsibilities

• Contribute to, analyze, and optimize the performance of the core ClickHouse database
• Ensure that the database performance does not deteriorate over time by extending existing and adding new performance tests, based on real-world or synthetic datasets
• Serve as a resource for the Support Engineering team, helping to debug the most advanced performance issues encountered by our customers. This includes an on call rotation as well as participation in our external community support channels
• Closely collaborate with our other teams to assess the impact of new features on performance and reliability
• Work with our open-source community. This will include resolving issues, reviewing and finishing PRs, answering questions from mail, chats, google groups, external Slack channels, etc

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ClickHouse
• Experience in security, privacy, and compliance
• Experience with TCP/IP and network programming
• Experience developing cloud infrastructure services, preferably with Kubernetes
• Experience giving public talks at technical conferences and meetups
• Previous contributions to open source projects

Benefits

• Cash compensation and a stock options grant
• 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)